Using 'Find' in collections

[lxp]

I am trying program a button to search for a file in a selection of archives. The Find command only works on folders, so this is not an option:

Find mypicture.jpg IN D:\Data\2018*.rar ARCHIVES RECURSE

So I tried to use collections:

Find 2018*.rar     IN D:\Data                           RECURSE CLEAR COLLNAME MyFindCollection1
Find mypicture.jpg IN coll://MyFindCollection1 ARCHIVES RECURSE       COLLNAME MyFindCollection2

Again no success. Find doesn't accept collections, either, it seems. Or does it?

How could I program this two-stage search?

[Leo]

You can use REFINE to apply one search on top.of another, but you can also do things in a sibgle search by using a filter.

How to filter items by location or sub-folder

Update/Note: Since this guide was written, the ability to filter by Full Path was added. You can now apply wildcards and regexps to each file's full path in one line. This is sometimes easier than separately testing the filename and the parent folde…

[lxp]

Is REFINE an argument for the Find command? I couldn't find anything in the help.

I tried this filter, but didn't succeed:

[Leo]

That 2nd part of that filter would only match the archive itself. Add \* at the end after the .rar.