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Re: An appropriate directory search tool?

From Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: An appropriate directory search tool?
Date 2018-10-19 17:20 +0200
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 10:00:25AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> The "MATE Search Tool" comes close.
> 
> It can:
>   Select a starting directory.
>   Search for a specific extension.
>   Search for a keyword in file content.
> 
> It cannot:
>    Search ONLY the specified directory.
>    Return files that DO NOT contain a keyword.
> 
> I suspect what I want would most likely be what I'm looking for.
> "ls" can search by extension and stay in specified directory.
> It cannot include/exclude keywords.
> 
> My immediate problem involves only a couple dozen files so manual search is
> feasible.
> 
> Suggestions?

I recommend 'find' run from the terminal.

For example, I have a directory tree full of files like shell scripts,
Perl scripts, and also XML documents and their Russian translations.  To
find the XML documents that are not Russian translations, I can do this:

find . -name '*.xml' -a \! -name '*_ru.xml'

Read that as "find, the current director, files named *.xml and not
named *_ru.xml."

It also supports an amazing array of conditions, like newer/older than,
same/different permissions, size, etc.

Regards,

-Roberto
-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez

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An appropriate directory search tool? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-19 17:10 +0200
  Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-10-19 17:20 +0200
  Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-10-19 17:20 +0200
  Re: An appropriate directory search tool? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-10-19 17:30 +0200
    Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-19 17:40 +0200
      Re: An appropriate directory search tool? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-10-19 17:50 +0200
      Re: An appropriate directory search tool? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-20 15:30 +0200
  Re: An appropriate directory search tool? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-19 17:50 +0200
    Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-19 18:10 +0200
      Re: An appropriate directory search tool? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-30 16:00 +0100
        Re: An appropriate directory search tool? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-12-01 18:20 +0100
  Re: An appropriate directory search tool? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-10-20 00:40 +0200
  Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-20 11:40 +0200
    Re: An appropriate directory search tool? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-10-20 11:50 +0200
      Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-20 12:30 +0200
        Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-10-20 13:40 +0200
          Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-20 14:30 +0200
            Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-20 21:10 +0200
              Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Håkon Alstadheim <hakon@alstadheim.priv.no> - 2018-10-21 00:00 +0200
                Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-21 12:10 +0200
              Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2018-10-21 11:00 +0200
                Re: An appropriate directory search tool? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-10-21 11:20 +0200
        Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-10-20 14:10 +0200
        Re: An appropriate directory search tool? John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-10-21 03:20 +0200
          Re: An appropriate directory search tool? mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-10-21 07:30 +0200
          Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-21 12:30 +0200
            Re: An appropriate directory search tool? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-21 15:50 +0200
              Re: An appropriate directory search tool? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-21 16:40 +0200
                Re: An appropriate directory search tool? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-21 17:30 +0200
                Re: An appropriate directory search tool? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-21 17:50 +0200
                Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-10-21 18:40 +0200
                Re: An appropriate directory search tool? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-21 18:40 +0200
                Re: An appropriate directory search tool? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-21 19:20 +0200
                Re: An appropriate directory search tool? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-21 21:00 +0200
                Re: An appropriate directory search tool? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-21 23:50 +0200
              Re: An appropriate directory search tool? John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-10-22 03:20 +0200
                Re: An appropriate directory search tool? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-22 17:30 +0200
              Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-22 15:20 +0200
                Re: An appropriate directory search tool? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-22 17:30 +0200
                Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-22 17:50 +0200
        Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-10-21 12:00 +0200
      Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-10-20 13:30 +0200
        Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-20 14:30 +0200
    Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2018-10-20 12:30 +0200
      Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-20 14:40 +0200
        Re: An appropriate directory search tool? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-10-20 15:20 +0200
        Re: An appropriate directory search tool? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-20 15:30 +0200

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