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Questions tagged [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 scope of my question, anyway).
One major difference…
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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?
Blankman
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How can I search within a manpage?
Is there a option to search within manpages?
NES
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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 Linux distro).
I'm using Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS (an…
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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 string is located on within the file.
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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 type. I do not want the grep to show warnings like…
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How do I disable search-as-you-type text in Ubuntu 17.10 and later?
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
gsettings list-recursively | grep interactive
but no…
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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 individual chapter is in a different .pdf or .doc)…
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how to find a word in text files from a directory
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 can do that?
I want to know which text files in…
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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 the context of a position? I've tried to convert…
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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 changed
docroot
|- myfile1 30.11.2015
|- myfile2 …
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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=cat+cooking+salmon&t=canonical.
However, if I…
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