Search The Text Of The Files In A Folder

Press Space on a folder, switch the sidebar’s filter to Contents and type

meeting-notes-2026-09-24.md

jitter

NamesContents

Found in 6 files

math.md1The delay before retry $n$ is exponential with full jitter:

meeting-notes-2026-09-24.md21. Retries get exponential backoff with jitter before launch.

plan.md1- [x] Exponential backoff with jitter

transcript-demo-video.txt1[00:03] You add a job, and if it fails, Orbit retries with backoff and jitter.

queue.tssrc1return Math.floor(Math.random() * exp); // full jitter

Meeting notes: launch sync, Sep 24

A Contents search of the demo folder for “jitter”: drawn in HTML, not a screenshot.

Press Space on a folder, ⌥⌘F, switch to Contents and type: spacebar lists every file below whose text matches, with the first matching line.

How To Search

Results show folder, match count and first line. Text only in Markdown markup, like a link’s address, is in Raw.

SearchedMarkdown, code, JSON, CSV and text, in every folder below.
Skippednode_modules, .build, Pods, binaries, undownloaded iCloud files.

Hidden files only when shown. Plain text, any case, no patterns.

A search cut short says so: “Found in 12 files · 300 of 900 searched”.

On Names, letters match in order, so rdme finds README.md in any folder below.

In the Space window, drag a result into Finder, Mail or an editor to hand it the file.

Space on a folder opens spacebar inside Quick Look, so Contents search needs nothing else. The optional Space helper, which needs Accessibility, adds PDFs, photos and CSV. More: Quick Look a whole folder, Quick Look replacement, compare.

Or paste this in Terminal

$ curl -fsSL https://spacebar.patebryant.com/install.sh | sh

The script downloads the latest notarized release from GitHub, checks its SHA-256 and installs to ~/Applications, no sudo. Read the script.