nautilussearch
I installed nginx using apt-get. There are now many folders and files with "nginx" in their name. Using the file browser (nautilus) i search for "nginx" with "All Files" selected.
It will not find anything outside of my home folder. I have restarted and also tried the command updatedb, but it still cant find anything outside my home folder.
How do I change this? It feels like search is broken.
FSlint is a versatile duplicate finder that includes a function for finding duplicate names:
The FSlint package for Ubuntu emphasizes the graphical interface, but as is explained in the FSlint FAQ a command-line interface is available via the programs in /usr/share/fslint/fslint/. Use the --help option for documentation, e.g.:
$ /usr/share/fslint/fslint/fslint --help
File system lint.
A collection of utilities to find lint on a filesystem.
To get more info on each utility run 'util --help'.
findup -- find DUPlicate files
findnl -- find Name Lint (problems with filenames)
findu8 -- find filenames with invalid utf8 encoding
findbl -- find Bad Links (various problems with symlinks)
findsn -- find Same Name (problems with clashing names)
finded -- find Empty Directories
findid -- find files with dead user IDs
findns -- find Non Stripped executables
findrs -- find Redundant Whitespace in files
findtf -- find Temporary Files
findul -- find possibly Unused Libraries
zipdir -- Reclaim wasted space in ext2 directory entries
$ /usr/share/fslint/fslint/findsn --help
find (files) with duplicate or conflicting names.
Usage: findsn [-A -c -C] [[-r] [-f] paths(s) ...]
If no arguments are supplied the $PATH is searched for any redundant
or conflicting files.
-A reports all aliases (soft and hard links) to files.
If no path(s) specified then the $PATH is searched.
If only path(s) specified then they are checked for duplicate named
files. You can qualify this with -C to ignore case in this search.
Qualifying with -c is more restictive as only files (or directories)
in the same directory whose names differ only in case are reported.
I.E. -c will flag files & directories that will conflict if transfered
to a case insensitive file system. Note if -c or -C specified and
no path(s) specifed the current directory is assumed.
Example usage:
$ /usr/share/fslint/fslint/findsn /usr/share/icons/ > icons-with-duplicate-names.txt
$ head icons-with-duplicate-names.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 683 2011-04-15 10:31 Humanity-Dark/AUTHORS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 683 2011-04-15 10:31 Humanity/AUTHORS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17992 2011-04-15 10:31 Humanity-Dark/COPYING
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17992 2011-04-15 10:31 Humanity/COPYING
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4776 2011-03-29 08:57 Faenza/apps/16/DC++.xpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3816 2011-03-29 08:57 Faenza/apps/22/DC++.xpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4008 2011-03-29 08:57 Faenza/apps/24/DC++.xpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4456 2011-03-29 08:57 Faenza/apps/32/DC++.xpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7336 2011-03-29 08:57 Faenza/apps/48/DC++.xpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 918 2011-03-29 09:03 Faenza/apps/16/Thunar.png
Sounds like a job for gnome-search-tool.
It can perform partial matches on the file name and search on more options:
It can also:
You can define a a location to search. In my example I have two .gpl files in that directory but only one containing the word Server.
Best Answer
Please make sure that you navigate the nautilus to the parent directory of
/home.For example File System that you can search all of the file in your machine.
To perform search just simply press Ctrl+F.
Please note that: I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with GNOME 3 Classic.
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