And, I found the right way to do this: Open the "File Search" dialog box, delete all the text in the "Contains Text:" field, select the "File Name Template" that you want (for all files that will be ""), and then select the area you want (workspace, selected resources, etc.). Perform a search, and then view the hit counter in the search box. The key here is the "Contains text:" field. If it is ", it will match strings, not just files. First I tried to use a regular expression that would match only one file, for example," \ A (. | \ R)? "Which works to a certain extent (matches all non-empty , not binary files).But only an empty text field will really find all the files in the Eclipse resource model (including linked and virtual folders, but not derived or command-private resources).