[Linux-disciples] Graphical interface to 'find'?

Adam Kessel linux-disciples@bostoncoop.net
Mon Feb 9 17:10:09 EST 2004


On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 05:07:16PM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> To make a graphical 'find' that competes with the Windows one, it
> would have to incorporate grep; Windows-find allows one to search
> for text within files. But if one could combine these tools, it
> might reveal to people just how much richer a tool Unix-find is
> than Windows-find.
> So: any idea whether this exists?

There's gnome-find, part of the normal gnome stock tools, which isn't
quite a GUI to find, but still fairly powerful. I believe gnome-find,
like find, doesn't search contents.

There is also kfind, which *does* include grep type functionality.
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