How do I search for files in Visual Studio Code

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I am used to Resharper where I can search for files  not the content  but the filename  which makes it quick to open new files   Is this feature implemented in Visual Studio Code and is there a shortcut for it

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I m using VSCode 1 12 1  OSX press   Cmd   p

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To search for specifil file types in visual studio code   Type ctrl p and then search for something like   py  Simple and easy

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On OSX  for me it s cmd     p  cmd     e just searches within the currently opened file

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Other answers don t mention this command is named workbench action quickOpen   You can use this to search the Keyboard Shortcuts menu located in Preferences   On MacOS the default keybinding is cmd     P    Coming from Sublime Text  I always change this to cmd     T

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Using Go to File    which is under the Go menu or using keyboard shortcut    On Windows Ctrl p or Ctrl e On macOS Cmd   p  On Linux Ctrl p or Ctrl e   Then type the file name   Also be sure to checkout that you can set your own keybindings and that there are cheatsheets available for Windows  macOS and Linux

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consider you have thousand of files in vs code and you want to search for a file with particular name then    Right click VS code editor  Select Command Palete In the text box type the file name

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If using vscodevim extension  ctrl   p won t work so I saw another answer using  ctrl   shift   p which opens the command palette  Hit backspace to remove the   gt   and then start typing your filename

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If you just want to search a single file name  Just Ctrl P  then type and choose your one  If you want to open all files whose name contains a particular string   Open search panel Put any common words inside those files in  files to include   put the search string with    e g   Signaller

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You can also press F1 to open the Command Palette and then remove the  gt  via Backspace  Now you can search for files  too

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Win  CTRL P or CTRL E    Mac  CMD P or CMD E    Don t want to remember another shortcut   Open the Command Palette     Menu  View -  Command Palette Windows Shortcut  Ctrl Shift P   and hit backspace to delete     character and then begin typing to search for files via filename

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If you want to see your files in Explorer tree     when you click anywhere in the explorer tree and start typing something on the keyboard  the search keyword appears in the top right corner of the screen     module ts      And when you hover over the keyword with the mouse cursor  you can click on  Enable Filter on Type  to filter tree with your search

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Also works in ubuntu with Ctrl E

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For windows  if Ctrl p doesn t always work use  Ctrl shift n instead

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