[Bug 81977] Re: how to search for folders?

[Andrew Frank]

dear toby

i remeber that everying is a file  (i read the original unix design 
book... now you can guess how old i am (;-)

i use the gnome GUI:
i can search fine (for files and folders in my home directory) but not 
down from root
e.g. open filesystem
ctrl-f: search for "grub"  -- 0 files found (there is a directory in /boot!)

using beagle for searches for folders is not convenient, because beagle 
is not always up-to-date and then does not show.

i suggest that the search in nautilus should work from the currently 
displayed folder recursively downwards and search for folder and files 
with a given name (allowing wildcards) - and not rely on beagle. the 
answer in nautilus must be correct for the time i ask.

(i guess the above is a one line unix shell command...)

if your system does what i describe, then i would be interested to 
understand where i made an error in installing (i am to ubuntu and back 
to unix after N years)

thanks for the help and the good system
andrew


Toby Smithe wrote:
> Remember everything in UNIX is a file.
>
>   

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how to search for folders?
https://launchpad.net/bugs/81977