Questions tagged [search]
Generic term to indicate a user initiated search
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Any way to search for text within nano?
Nano is the editor I use in command prompts.
When I open a large file I would like to search for some text (think Ctrl + F).
Is there a way to do this?
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Traditional search-as-you-type on newer Nautilus versions
Until now I was using a "traditional" version of Nautilus: that that comes with Ubuntu 10.10. Now I'm using 3.6.3, included with Ubuntu 13.04 (most likely any recent version is equivalent for the ...
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How to search entire hard drive for a file?
Trying to locate a file, how can I search the entire hard drive for a file?
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How to search for all the files starting with the name "ABC" in a directory?
I need to search for files starting with some particular name. There can be multiple files starting with a particular pattern and I want to list all such files present in the directory.
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How do I find packages to install via apt-get
After doing a man apt-get and cursory Google search it's not clear how I find new programs to install (from the internet) using apt-get (which is amazingly powerful and simple coming from another ...
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How to search strings inside files like in Windows without search monkey?
I am using Ubuntu on VMWare but I cannot connect to internet because of security restrictions.
I was wondering if there was a way to search for strings through the terminal and find which line the ...
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command to find files by searching only part of their names?
Say there are files with names:
batman.c
debate.c
cricketbat.c
What command and how should I use it to list all these files by using the searchtag bat?
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Grep, ignore warnings
I am trying to find the installation directory of a particular package. I have a certain keyword using which I am trying to find a particular file.
During grep, I only want to include cpp or h file ...
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How do I disable search-as-you-type text in Ubuntu 17.10 and later? [duplicate]
I cannot find enable-interactive-search in
gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences enable-interactive-search true.
I searched using
gsettings list-recursively | grep search
and
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Search text within multiple pdfs and docs
I got a bunch of notes written by other students, but they are from an old textbook that didn't deal with everything in the same order, so I need to search through the notes for every chapter (each ...
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how to find a word in text files from a directory [duplicate]
Suppose that I have a directory with name _file and includes two sub directory like _1 and _2 and on each one I have some text files. I want to search a word like foo in one of these text files. How I ...
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How do I search a PDF file from command line?
I'm checking references of a paper and want to find the positions in the body where some paper (in the references list) is referenced. Is there a PDF editor which supports search via bash and extract ...
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Find what packages are installed from a repository
I'm trying to find what packages I have installed from a repository using terminal commands.
I found a post somewhere saying I could use aptitude search "?origin (<repository>) ?installed", but ...
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List all recently changed files (recursive)
So, I want to display (via ls for example) all files, which were changed in the last seven days. If I'm in my docroot-folder, it should be able to look "deeper".
For example:
File Last ...
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How do I get mlocate to only index certain directories?
I'd like to use mlocate on my Ubuntu server, but only to index certain directories (e.g. /home and /data, but not everything under /). However, mlocate's standard configuration works the opposite way; ...
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Can I search in the terminal backlog in Terminator
I'm using Terminator as my terminal. Is there a built-in way to find/search through the output backlog? I'm not looking for grep and piping a command, or piping into less or vim.
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How to remove `t=canonical` from Firefox browser searches made on DuckDuckGo?
In Ubuntu 14.04, when I do a search in Firefox using either the address bar or the search bar, the system always adds t=canonical to my searches. So the full string becomes: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=...
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Search for duplicate file names within folder hierarchy?
I have a folder called img, this folder has many levels of sub-folders, all of which containing images. I am going to import them into an image server.
Normally images (or any files) can have the ...
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How to find all empty files and folders in a specific directory including files which just look empty but are not?
Let's say that in my folder ~/list I have a large amount of folders each with their own sub-folders and sub-sub-folders etc, and there are lots of files almost on each level. However some of these ...
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Explicit pictures show when searching "gedit" in Ubuntu Dash
Recently at work I searched the Unity Dash for gedit and there were explicit pictures in the search result. The picture shows in "Reference" field when I search "gedit" only..
It was very ...
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Enhancing the Nautilus search option
In Nautilus if I press CTRL+F inside a folder I get a search box that helps me search in the current directory and sub directories for specific names and types of files, but what if I want to:
Find ...
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Software for text search in files
I am looking for a software that will search text in files from a folder similar to XYplorer.
Is there something similar?
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How can I have a dash-like search under Xfce?
About 1.5 years ago, I tried out Ubuntu 11.04. I remember the dash being a rather helpful tool and I like the equivalent features on both Windows 7 (via the Start-button) and the Mac OS.
When I press ...
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how do I disable recursive search in nautilus 3.6
Recursive search in nautilus 3.6 completely breaks my keyboard navigation. I often navigate network volumes, and typing to get directly to a folder and clicking enter was very quick. Now typing ...
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Type Ahead search using Nautilus on Ubuntu 18.04 [duplicate]
Before upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, I was using Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS. When I was in the file browser, I was able to access a file just by writing some letters; it just got selected and it was super ...
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Does linux filesystem support fast file searching /indexing?
I wonder why aren't there any tool that enable one to find files on his harddisk very rapidly like "search everything" does .Just type a part of the file name and all files containing the keyword ...
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How to make faster first search at Unity-Dash? Way slower than second one
After a reboot, the first search using Unity Dash will be slower (15 sec) than the second search (seems instant), on my system at least. I guess this is because file index is cleared after a reboot ...
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Search for all files with a .sql extension in folders and sub folders
I want to search for all files with the .sql extension in folders and sub-folders (recursive).
How can I do this?
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What is the difference between locate/whereis/which
What is the basic difference between locate whereis and which command.
The basic difference that I observed is that locate locates all the related file names in the entire filesystem, whereas ...
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Is it possible to customise the search engine buttons in GNOME Shell?
When searching in gnome-shell, there are two buttons towards the bottom of the screen which can be used to search with Wikipedia and Google.
Is there any way to customise these? If, say, I wanted to ...
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Exclude directory from Unity Search
I am re-asking this question:
How to remove a specific folder from the Ubuntu search?
because I do not believe it was a duplicate, or was answered in that post.
This has nothing to do with Zeitgeist ...
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Is there any software that will do face recognition in photos?
I would like to automate the process of tagging my photos with subjects' names.
Is there any software for Ubuntu that can perform face recognition on a local photo collection?
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Searching previous command history with PageUp in 14.04
I got this working before (I believe it was on a 15.10, I recently downgraded to the LTS 14.04).
According to this post the following should work
~ $ cat ~/.inputrc
"\e[A":history-search-backward
"\...
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How to make "Search on Google" available in selected text's context menu in gnome-terminal?
I want to have an option like Search on Google available in selected text's context menu in gnome-terminal. Something similar to the option which is available in selected text's context menu in google ...
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Any search tool for LXDE menu?
I just installed lxde to boot into when laptop is using battery, but I really miss at least a simple search feature, I am used to Unity so I find myself losing too much time navigating on the menus, ...
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How to search for files and file contents with a GUI?
When I use the search function in Nautilus it only returns files with matching file names. It doesn't even support wildcards. For example, "*.txt" doesn't return anything. I would expect it to return ...
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Is there a equivalent application to Everything search engine (Windows) on Ubuntu?
IMO, Everything search engine is the best desktop search software on Windows and I wonder if there is an equivalent utility on Ubuntu ?
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grep list each file once
I'm looking some text in files , but three are a lot of files and searched text appears several times in one file, how can I receive a list of files that contains searched text with every file listed ...
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Built-in calculator to GNOME search window
Using Ubuntu 18.04.
On prior versions of Ubuntu GNOME, I could type basic expressions into the gnome search bar and get the answer. Ever since I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 however, I cannot; it shows ...
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Find a file with exact name without using wildcard
I have been using Ubuntu for abuot 2 weeks and and still frustrated with simple file operations.
I want to find a file called 9.jpg. Every internal command and 3rd party program I have tried, gives ...
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Gedit: Search next match ... usability
Searching the next match with gedit makes me crazy.
I press Ctrl+F
The search input box opens
I enter foo
There is a match for foo. Nice
Up to now everything is sane
I want to search the next match (...
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What exactly does Zeitgeist index?
I am not clear on this. Does Zeitgeist index the contents of my document so searches are more relevant? Or is Zeitgeist only searching the name/extension of my documents?
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How to set nemo as default instead of nautilus? [duplicate]
I have recently installed nemo with:
sudo apt-get install nemo
But I am finding that other applications still are using nautilus to open folders like for instance the Unity search still opens its ...
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How can I tag files and search them later based on the tag?
Running Ubuntu Gnome.
I have a lot of PDF and other documents and I will like to tag them. And search them later based on these tags. Even if I move the files to different folders (so, the tags stick ...
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How to list the last modified files in a specific directory recursively
It may be a generic Linux question but I'll give it a try here.
I need a list of recently modified files very often and currently for it I am piping ls output to grep with the param on today or a ...
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Where is search on Ubuntu Software Center?
It seems to have disappeared. The menu Edit/Search doesn't work, either.
I've filed a launchpad bug-report.
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Nautilus doesn't have type-ahead search in Ubuntu 17.10 [duplicate]
I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 17.10 and have noticed that Nautilus (I'm aware they dropped it years ago, I meant that Ubuntu patched it back in before) dropped type-ahead. It now instead opens the ...
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How can I make Files search recursively within a network share?
When I use Files to search within a network share, it says:
Remote location - only searching the current folder
How can I make it search all folders like it normally does? I understand that ...
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Find projects that use a particular programming language in Launchpad?
On Launchpad.net, most projects list the programming language(s) their software uses:
It would be useful if there was a way to get a list of all the projects that use "X" programming language, in my ...
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