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<legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice>
<date>2001-06-24</date>
<releaseinfo>1.10.00</releaseinfo>
<date>2003-05-25</date>
<releaseinfo>1.20.00</releaseinfo>
<abstract>
<para>
@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
<keyword>kdeutils</keyword>
<keyword>kfind</keyword>
<keyword>find</keyword>
<keyword>search</keyword>
</keywordset>
</bookinfo>
@ -70,12 +71,12 @@ expressions within files.
When starting &kfind;, you will see a quite simple window. Type in the
name of the file you are searching in the textbox labeled
<guilabel>Named:</guilabel>, choose a directory where you want to search
by typing it in the field <quote><guilabel>Look in:</guilabel></quote>
or clicking <guibutton>Browse...</guibutton> and hit
by typing it in the field <guilabel>Look in:</guilabel>
or by clicking <guibutton>Browse...</guibutton> and hit
<keycap>Enter</keycap> or click <guibutton>Find</guibutton>. If
<guilabel>Include subdirectories</guilabel> is checked, all
subdirectories starting from your chosen directory will be searched,
too. The results will be displayed in the Box below.
too. The results will be displayed in the box below.
</para>
<para>
@ -88,10 +89,10 @@ You can use the following wildcards:
<listitem>
<para>
The asterisk stands for any number of missing characters (even zero),
that means &eg; searching for <filename>marc*</filename> may find the
that means &eg; searching for <userinput>marc*</userinput> may find the
files <filename>marc</filename>, <filename>marc.png</filename> and
<filename> marc_must_not_read_this.kwd</filename>. Otherwise,
<filename>mar*.kwd</filename> may find
<filename> marc_must_not_read_this.kwd</filename>.
<userinput>mar*.kwd</userinput> may find
<filename>marketplace.kwd</filename> and
<filename>marc_must_not_read_this.kwd</filename>.
</para>
@ -103,8 +104,8 @@ files <filename>marc</filename>, <filename>marc.png</filename> and
<listitem>
<para>
In contrast to the asterisk, the question mark stands for exacly one
character, so <filename>mar?</filename> will find
<filename>marc</filename>, but <filename>marc?</filename> won't find
character, so <userinput>mar?</userinput> will find
<filename>marc</filename>, but <userinput>marc?</userinput> won't find
anything, as our files are called <filename>marc</filename> and
<filename>marc.png</filename>. You can put as many question marks in the
term as you want, it will find exactly that number of characters.
@ -121,38 +122,11 @@ Of course you can combine those two wildcard symbols in a search term.
</sect1>
<sect1 id="kfind-date-range">
<title>The Date Range Tab</title>
<para>
In this tab you can tell &kfind; the date period when the file(s) to be
found have been created or edited last time.
</para>
<para>
Choosing <guilabel>All files</guilabel> will tell &kfind; not to worry
about dates. If you check <guilabel>Find all files created or
modified:</guilabel>, you can either enter two dates, between which the
files were changed or created, or specify a period of previous months or
days where the files should lay in.
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="kfind-advanced">
<title>The Advanced Tab</title>
<para>
Here you can refine your search or only look for files that contain a
specific word or phrase.
</para>
<para>
These are the special refinements you can choose:
</para>
<title>The Contents Tab</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Of Type</guilabel></term>
<term><guilabel>File type</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Here you can specify the type of file you are searching for.
@ -161,40 +135,50 @@ Here you can specify the type of file you are searching for.
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Containing Text</guilabel></term>
<term><guilabel>Containing text</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Type in the word or phrase the files you are searching for must
contain. Note: If you do this in a large directory or checked
<guilabel>Include Subfolders</guilabel>, this may take a long time.
<guilabel>Include subdirectories</guilabel> in the
<guilabel>Name/Location</guilabel> tab, this may take a long time.
</para>
<note>
<para>This option will <emphasis>not</emphasis> work for all files listed
under <guilabel>File type</guilabel>. Only the following file types
are supported:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Text files, &eg; source code and <filename>REAMDE</filename> files</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>KWord</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>KPresenter</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>KSpread</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>OpenOffice.org Writer</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>OpenOffice.org Impress</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>OpenOffice.org Calc</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</note>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Size is:</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Here you can specify if the file has to be at least or as most as
big as the size (in KB) you entered in the following box.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Case Sensitive</guilabel></term>
<term><guilabel>Case sensitive</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Usually, &kfind; doesn't matter of cases, so searching for
<filename>marc.png</filename> will find <filename>marc.png</filename>
and <filename>Marc.png</filename>. If you enable this option, it will
only find files with the exact case matching, in our example only
<filename>marc.png</filename>.
If you enable this option, &kfind; will
only find files with the exact case matching, &eg;
<userinput>MARC</userinput> will only match
<quote>MARC</quote>, not <quote>Marc</quote>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Use Regular Expression Matching</guilabel></term>
<term><guilabel>Regular expression</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>If you have installed the &kregexpeditor; tool from
the kdeutils package, you will have this additional option. Enabling
it will allow you to search for a <firstterm>regexp</firstterm> or
@ -208,7 +192,50 @@ you.</para>
<para>&kregexpeditor; is a very useful tool, and can be used from within
many &kde; applications other than &kfind;. You can find more
information from within it's own help file.</para>
information from within its own help file.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<!-- TODO: "Search metainfo sections" -->
</variablelist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="kfind-advanced">
<title>The Properties Tab</title>
<para>
Here you can refine your search. These are the special refinements
you can choose:
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Find all files created or modified</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Here you can either enter two dates, between which the
files were created or modified, or specify a time period.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>File size is</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Here you can specify if the file has to be at least or as most as
big as the size you entered in the following box.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Files owned by user, Files owned by group</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Here you can specify user and group names.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>