Dolphin file name search syntax

[Clay Weber]

On Wednesday 29 April 2009 10:57:52 am marc wrote:
> marc said:
> > Arnaud bourree said:
> >> 2009/4/28 marc <gmane at auxbuss.com>
> >>
> >>> I just tried a search via dolphin. Right-click folder/Open with/Search
> >>> for files. Fine.
> >>>
> >>> But what is the syntax for file name searching?
> >>>
> >>> When I to search for, say, "agile" in a file title, I must put
> >>> "*agile*". That works.
> >>>
> >>> But say I want to search for "agile software"?
> >>>
> >>> I've tried everything I can thing of, but no joy. It would help to
> >>> know the syntax!
> >>>
> >>> Interestingly, "*agile*s*" will throw out all as you would expect, but
> >>> add the o, "*agile*so*" and it finds nothing.

Have you tried "agile s*"? (no  quotes) - with a space between the phrases?
That works for me

> >>> I'vve tried regex - why can't it use regex? - but that doesn't work
> >>> either.
> >>>
> >>> Worse to come: you can't sort the results.

Probably nepomuk and/or strigi are more feature-filled search tools (not used 
them myself, my old laptop doesn't care for file indexing tasks, etc.)

> >> I found the following in Help manual:
> >>
> >> I install kdeutils with apt-get but I don't have any Regular Expresion
> >> check box nor somethink like :-(
> >
> > Ouch! This is totally screwed up.
> >
> > So the find files dialogue simply doesn't work. Doesn't look like it's
> > been test at all. How do people find files in their file manager?
> > There's also a spelling mistake in the third tab.

It's the same  desktop search too KDE has had for years

> > On top of that, kregexpeditor has been removed. I search the package
> > repos.

Old and unmaintained, unfortunately

> Okay, minor progress. The right-click search is from Gnome's tools; it
> doesn't work there either. Nor krusader or other tools using the central
> search.
>
> To search with dolphin, you have to either open the tool from the top-
> menu or via ctrl-f, in either case it doesn't use the location context,
> so you have to navigate twice <sigh>.
>
> Still, there's something very broken in the search algorithms and it's
> failing trivially simple searches.
>
> --
> Best,
> Marc


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