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How to search for special characters in Explorer?

Q

have a collection of 1000+ files in an FTP folder. The problem is that about 50 of them contain & symbols in their file names. I need to find and delete all files containing the '&' symbol. I thought it should be easy enough to search File Explorer for the '&' symbol. However, when doing so, nothing happens. It returns all the files. Is there any way to search for special characters like '&' in File Explorer?

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A
Type filename:*& to Explorer search field, this finds all files where the & character appears in the filename or file extension.

2014-11-10, ∼8005🔥, 0💬

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