Graham admin_teGa This simple example search will take the first word of a query and filter the filelist to only show files that contain that word anywhere in the file name
Everything after a space in the query is ignored and trimmed off
The *.* in the filter means it will only list files with an extension so you do not need to put the extension in the query

<!--parser:xtscript--> get search var $spc=call chr $val=32 var $first_space = call strpos $haystack=$search;$needle=$spc if $first_space var $search= call substr $val=$search;$start=0;$length=$first_space endif <!--/parser:xtscript--> <form action="<xt:url />" method="get"> <input type="search" name="search" value="{_$$search|}" /> <input type="submit" value="search" /> </form> <xt:filelist sort_type="name" sort_dir="asc" folder="/files" template="" per_page="3" filter="*{_$$search|}*.*"/>

this search would find the files in your examples from either query as it would find the word "bad" or "you" in the file name