Ubuntu :: Search For Content In Files?
Mar 5, 2010
I need the ability to search for file content in documents and spreadsheets and I need to be able to do this from the folder level.When I hover my mouse over the "search" button in the file browser toolbar, it says that it can "locate documents and folders on this computer by name or content," but that is not the case. It can only locate documents and folders by name. Is there something I need to download that will allow me to do this? I have nautilus file manager.
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Feb 15, 2010
I'm looking for a simple and reliable search engine for searching particular content on the files in the storage database. The output will display files' name and their path. Google search found following site:- "List of search engines";[URL]..There are many of them. I have no idea how to make my selection. Could you please shed me some light. Furthermore can a simple shell command do the same job?
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Feb 19, 2011
I'd like to search the entire server by content. (text file) When I try grep -rl "text here", it freezes. How would you do it? And how long does it usually take?
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Jul 20, 2011
I have noticed that the files and folders search in Unity, only shows up those files which have been amended (or possibly just opened) since the install.
i was wondering if there was a way i could have the search index (or something vaguely equivalent) all the files on my machine. This is especially important given that i reinstall the OS every six months on a new distribution cycle, copying all my old files across.
Without being able to see my old files the search is pretty much reduced to a recent history search.
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Sep 18, 2010
I wish to compare all the files in a directory....comparing is by content. And same files should be printed...
echo "program : $0"
cd $1
for a in *
do
[code]....
This logic did not give the correct result...
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Oct 5, 2010
I am using find to search for .tgz files modified more than 7 days ago and delete them.find /directory/ -iname backup*.tgz -daystart -mtime +7 -exec rm -rf {} My problem is that find will go through the content of tarball as well and list all content. I want to only search main tarball and delete it if older than 7 days.
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Nov 22, 2010
#the file temp contain a path to a directory int the first line
a= `head -1 temp`
bash: /home/ram/linuxTraining/scripting/testDir/test1Dir/test2Dir: is a directory
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Dec 19, 2010
Is there any way, either with something included or with a program that can be set up to search for files in Ubuntu? I need something like the search for files or folders that was available in Windoze 98 and 2000. I have tried the built in search under "places" and I have found no way to get it to search a full drive or all drives.
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Apr 12, 2011
If you have the value 100 in File1 and the value 5 in File2, how do you write a script to divide the 100 in File1 by the 5 in File2 in Linux Bash Shell?The operating system I am using is Ubuntu 10 and object is to write a script to accomplish this task.
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Feb 1, 2011
find a file or content by name recursively similar to the ms-windows function search with Linux? I can do find . | grep test.html suspecting it's not the best.
For instance, running find . | grep terms.htmlgives my expected result while locate terms.html doesn't even though locate gets updated db - it might have to do with that it's an USB stick the file is on?
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Jan 20, 2010
Recently one of the worm is spread in our network & so many unwated files are getting copied on our ubuntu file server like comment.htt, desktop.ini, winfile.exe Now we have clean that worm from our network but few files are remained on ubuntu server as well as in backup folders and i want to search those files and delete it.
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May 11, 2010
I recently used scalpel to recover .doc files. I only need to find just one file, but scalpel retrieved thousands and thousands of them, all titled after a sequence of numbers. If I could only search within them all for a single word I'd be able to identify the ones to check out vs. the duds immediately.
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Nov 28, 2010
How can I search for one 6 letter word throughout all of my Ubuntu files?
Sounds simple but I've not found what I'm looking for. The bottom line is that I am wanting to clean up a file association in mime. I would have had more success if I were searching for this under XP. I must be doing something wrong.
Since I trialled a commercial company's map product under Wine somewhere in my system is still their name. Any gpx file I choose to download and the company's name appears in properties. Ggx files are also associated with Wine whilst an untainted PC in the house just has "Browse" as an "open with" option.
First things first, how do I find and delete this commercial company's name totally from any part of my system? How do I find their name in one or more of my files?
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Dec 8, 2010
I'm trying to look through a big folder of air photos to see if there are some world files that have duplicate coordinates. I want to find *.jgw files that have 123 in line 5 and 456 in line 6. I first thought grep could do this for me but grep 123 *.jgw|grep 456 finds only files where 123 and 456 are on the same line. Is there a sed trick for this?
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Dec 29, 2010
What's the best software people know of for searching for files in Ubuntu?
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Apr 20, 2011
My Search option under Places is not available. Earlier it was available but today when I checked its not there. How to restore it.
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May 8, 2011
any utility to search for a file of a particular extension like search for all .txt files only
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Feb 25, 2010
I would like to search for a term within a batch of text files and copy the files containing that term to a folder.
I've read the man pages for Grep, Ack-grep and looked through nautilus, dolphin, midnight commander as well as tried beagle, tracker and google desktop (and looked throught these forums).
I can do this function easily with xp's wagging dog in the Windows search, but would like to find a way in Linux.
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Sep 14, 2010
I want to use the terminal to search for all files (also the hidden ones) who are not of a specified type.
For example; I want to find all files that do not end with *.txt.
How do I do this?
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Sep 29, 2010
When I use "Search for Files" in Ubuntu (9.1 and 10.04), sometimes the computer continues to search after I've double clicked one of the results, and it noticeably slows the launching of that file unless I immediately click "stop" on the search window
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Mar 7, 2011
I am trying to search for a term in a bunch of files. Is there a way to do this. I would like to search all the files in a directory and its subdirectories for a specific term.
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May 9, 2011
Is there anything special I need to do to get file searching working in Unity? Currently Search for Files never finds anything in my documents area. I just get "Your Search did not match any files"
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Jun 23, 2011
Is there really no way of having with a GUI an indexed file search by filename (not contents etc) which gives a detailed list? Great big icons as a "result" is no good to me, I want "details" that I can then click on to either open or copy etc. I tried the totally useless "Tracker" and Zeitgeist in my 11.04 is no better. There is a fantastic product in the win environment called everything.exe which does exactly what I want. I cannot be alone in this type of requirement. It has to have a GUI.
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May 9, 2011
I'm trying to search the string "Listen" in a few files (config files). I madefind /apps/apache* -exec grep -H Listen {} ;but the result list is very long. How i make a "grep -v" whith this command?
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Jan 11, 2010
With Windows, I can use ifilter in acroread to search pdf content. How about in Linux? Which software can be used to search pdf files without opening them?
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Aug 24, 2010
My Linux system has an NTFS disk attached to it. How can I search for all *.txt files on the NTFS partition using Linux?
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Mar 6, 2010
I have a hidden folder with a lot of text files in it. I would like to search in this folder for all files containing a given text.The File Browser's" FIND searches only in the file names, not in their contents.The FIND function of Ubuntu does not allow me to search ONLY in the given hidden folder. So, how can I find my files within the hidden folder with the given text within them?
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Jul 10, 2010
I know you can use grep to find keywords in filenames, but is there a variation that can enable you to search the content of the files themselves?
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Jan 29, 2011
I am running Ubuntu 10.10 and have a 2TB external hard drive where I store several hundred movies. Each movie is contained in its own folder (in case the movie is broken up into more than 1 file). All the movie folders are contained in one "Movies" folder, so a typical movie location would be something like:
/media/MyBook/Movies/The Matrix/The Matrix (disc1).avi
Because of this, my movies are in alphabetical order, which is nice if I'm looking for a specific movie, but I'd also like to classify each movie into one or more genres. Sometimes I'm in the mood for a certain type of movie, and don't want to just browse aimlessly through the alphabetical list. So for example, The Matrix might be classified as Action, Science Fiction, and Thriller. If I were to add these genres into the "Notes" property of a movie folder, is it possible to conduct a search for words only in these notes? So that if I did a search for "Thriller" this movie and any other movie I classified as a thriller would show up?
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May 14, 2011
I am using Files and Folders search application in Ubuntu 11 recent version. App that shows up on side. However I am not sure how clean its search result. I do not see any option.
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