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+<sect1 id="krusearcher">
+ <title>KruSearcher: find what you are looking for</title>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>Search</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ <para>Welcome to &krusader;'s powerful search module -
+ nicknamed KruSearcher. It is the most able tool (that we know of)
+ for &Linux;, since it allows so many different ways to
+ quickly find the file you are looking for. The search function is
+ also available on remote file systems. It is divided into two
+ levels, the general and the advanced. Let's take a look at the
+ general page.</para>
+ <!-- OLD
+<screenshot>
+ <screeninfo>Krusearcher General</screeninfo>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject><imagedata fileref="search_general.png" format="PNG"/></imageobject>
+ <imageobject><imagedata fileref="search_general.png" format="EPS"/></imageobject>
+ <textobject><phrase>Krusearcher General</phrase></textobject>
+ <caption><para>Krusearcher General.</para></caption>
+ </mediaobject>
+</screenshot>
+-->
+ <figure id="screenshot-search-general" float="1">
+ <title>General Search</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="search_general.png"></imagedata>
+ </imageobject>
+ <textobject>
+ <phrase>General Search</phrase>
+ </textobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>The page is divided into four parts: top (search for) part,
+ bottom part - titled 'containing text', left part - titled
+ 'search in' and right part which is called 'don't search in'.
+ Obviously, each part handles different aspects of the search.
+ Let's look at them closely.</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <title>Top Part:</title>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <guilabel>Search for</guilabel>: here you enter the main
+ search criteria. You can enter a file name, a wildcard (
+ <literal role="extension">*.o.*</literal>,
+ <literal role="extension">*.c</literal> &etc;) or
+ both - separated by a space. If you type
+ <literal>'text'</literal> the results is the same as
+ <literal>'*text*'</literal>. You can exclude files from the
+ search with '|' (&eg;
+ <literal role="extension">'*.cpp *.h |
+ *.moc.cpp'</literal>) . You can use quotation marks for names
+ that contain spaces. Filter "Program Files" searches
+ out those files/directories the name of which is <filename>Program
+ Files</filename>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <guilabel>Case sensitive</guilabel>: unchecking it will allow
+ lower and upper case search (&ie;:
+ <literal role="extension">*.c</literal> interprets as
+ <literal role="extension">*.c</literal> AND
+ <literal role="extension">*.C</literal>).</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <guilabel>Of type</guilabel>: this box lets you search for a
+ file not only by its name, but also by its mime type. For
+ example, you can search for all the audio files whose name
+ begins with B. Usually this option defaults to 'all files',
+ but you can choose to search for archives, directories,
+ images, text files, videos and audio files.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <title>Left and Right Part:</title>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <guilabel>Search in</guilabel> and
+ <guilabel>Don't search in</guilabel>: Using those two parts,
+ you can specify a search exactly the way you want it. For
+ example, you might want to search for a file in the whole
+ file system (beginning with
+ <filename>/</filename>), but do not want to search inside
+ <filename>/mnt</filename>. All you need to do is write
+ <filename>/</filename> in the
+ <guilabel>search in</guilabel> box, and write
+ <filename>/mnt</filename> in the
+ <guilabel>dont search in</guilabel> box. If you want to enter
+ more than one directory in one of the boxes, just type the
+ first name and press &Enter;. The directory name
+ will be copied to the bigger box and youwill be able to enter
+ another name.
+ <note>
+ <para>The input line has an auto-completion feature,
+ corresponding to &kde; global settings. If you
+ wish, you can click on the
+ <guiicon>folder icon</guiicon>, and browse to the directory
+ you wish to add.</para>
+ </note></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <title>Bottom Part:</title>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <guilabel>Text</guilabel>: entering text here makes
+ &krusader; search for it inside the files (
+ <command>grep</command>). This way you can search for all
+ header files (
+ <literal role="extension">*.h</literal>) which include the
+ word
+ <literal>'testing 123'</literal>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <guilabel>Match whole word only</guilabel>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <guilabel>Case sensitive</guilabel>: refers to your text
+ being searched for in upper and lower case or the exact
+ phrase you entered.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <guilabel>Search in subdirectories</guilabel>: perform a
+ recursive search and dive into every directory on the
+ way.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <guilabel>Search in archives</guilabel>:
+ &krusader; will search for your files inside every
+ supported archive. This, however, takes longer to perform.
+ <note>
+ <para>If you check this checkbox, youwill notice you cannot
+ <command>grep</command> inside files anymore. This is done,
+ since looking inside archived files forces
+ &krusader; to extract them, which results in an
+ extremely time-consuming search.</para>
+ </note></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <guilabel>Follow links</guilabel>: if checked,
+ &krusader; will follow soft-links during the
+ search.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <guilabel>Profiles</guilabel>: if you have to regularly
+ perform the same search operation, you can save the search
+ settings &eg; include files, exclude files,
+ etc.... Press the 'profile' button, and you can
+ add/load/save/remove search profiles.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>The above screen shot shows a search for all the files which
+ end with
+ <literal role="extension">c, cpp</literal> or
+ <literal role="extension">h</literal> and include the string
+ <literal>'testing 123'</literal>. &krusader; will
+ search in
+ <filename class="directory">/root, /opt, /bin</filename> and
+ <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>, but not in
+ <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> and
+ <filename class="directory">/usr/share</filename>.</para>
+ <para>Clicking the
+ <guibutton>Search</guibutton> button starts the search and
+ displays the results page. During the search, you may press the
+ <guibutton>Stop</guibutton> button to stop the search. The
+ <guibutton>Close</guibutton> button is not operational during a
+ search, so you must first stop the search and then
+ <guibutton>Close</guibutton> the window. When a result is found,
+ double-clicking on it will take &krusader;'s active
+ panel point to the found files - but will not close the search
+ window, so you will be able to click on a different result.</para>
+ <para>Sometimes, you need to narrow your search even more.
+ Krusearcher allows a much finer search, and for that, let's look
+ at the
+ <guilabel>Advanced Page</guilabel>...</para>
+ <!-- OLD
+<screenshot>
+ <screeninfo>Krusearcher Advanced</screeninfo>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject><imagedata fileref="search_advanced.png" format="PNG"/></imageobject>
+ <imageobject><imagedata fileref="search_advanced.png" format="EPS"/></imageobject>
+ <textobject><phrase>Krusearcher Advanced</phrase></textobject>
+ <caption><para>Krusearcher Advanced.</para></caption>
+ </mediaobject>
+</screenshot>
+-->
+ <figure id="screenshot-search-advanced" float="1">
+ <title>Advanced Search</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="search_advanced.png"></imagedata>
+ </imageobject>
+ <textobject>
+ <phrase>Advanced Search</phrase>
+ </textobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure>
+ <para>This screen shot shows a search for files whose size is
+ between 10KB and 150KB, which were modified between October 10th
+ and November 1st, which belong to any user in the 'users' group,
+ and are readable and writable by anyone in the 'users' group, but
+ only readable to the rest of the world.</para>
+ <para>The advanced page is divided into three parts: size, date
+ and ownership.</para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis role="bold">Size</emphasis>
+ </para>
+ <para>Allows you to choose the size range of the file you are
+ looking for. By checking the check boxes, you can search for a
+ file which is bigger than XXX bytes (or KB, MB), smaller than XXX
+ bytes or, by checking both search for a file which size is bigger
+ than XXX but smaller than YYY.</para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis role="bold">Date</emphasis>
+ </para>
+ <para>This part offers three different ways of defining a date
+ criteria:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <guilabel>Modified between</guilabel>: allows you to enter
+ two dates. &krusader; will search for files with a
+ modification date between the first date and the second one,
+ inclusive. If you only enter a date in the left box, you will
+ be searching for files older than that date. If you only
+ enter a date in the right box, you will be searching for files
+ newer than that date.
+ <note>
+ <para>You can click on the date icon (near the input boxes)
+ to open a standard date window - which allows you to easily
+ browse through the calendar and search for the desired
+ date. Clicking on a date will close the window and the date
+ will appear in the input box.</para>
+ </note></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <guilabel>Not modified after</guilabel>: choosing this option
+ makes &krusader; search for files that were NOT
+ modified after a given date, which is the same as searching
+ for files older than that date.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <guilabel>Modified in the last/not modified in the
+ last</guilabel>: in these input boxes, you do not enter a date
+ but a number. This number represents days/weeks/months (as
+ chosen in the near drop box). Entering the number 5 in the
+ upper input box, makes &krusader; search for files
+ that were modified in the last 5 days. Entering the number 2
+ in the lower input box makes &krusader; search for
+ files that did NOT change in the last 2 days. The combination
+ of both results in a search for files that were changed in
+ the last 5 days, but NOT in the last 2 days.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist></para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis role="bold">Ownership</emphasis>
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <guilabel>Belongs to user/group</guilabel>: by checking each
+ of the corresponding check boxes, you can search for files
+ which belong to a certain user and/or group. The drop box
+ lists all the user names and group names in the system, just
+ choose one and go ahead.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <guilabel>Permissions</guilabel>: divided into owner, group
+ and all - it allows you to choose certain permissions for the
+ file. You can choose to specify permissions for the owner,
+ group, all or any combination. The question mark (?) is a
+ wildcard - which means that any permission is valid.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <note>
+ <para>To clarify, the screen shot above (the permissions part)
+ describes a search for files that belong to any user in group
+ 'users', are readable, writable but not executable to any user
+ in the group, are readable but not writable or executable to
+ the rest of the world and have unknown permissions to its
+ owner.</para>
+ </note>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis role="bold">Results</emphasis>
+ </para>
+ <para>Clicking on the
+ <guibutton>Search</guibutton> button to start the search and open
+ the Results window. Here you can see the progress and the the
+ results of the search action. If you want you can stop the
+ current search action with the
+ <guibutton>Stop</guibutton>button. In the result list select the
+ file and use
+ <keycap>F3</keycap>/
+ <keycap>F4</keycap> to view/edit or use the right-click menu. When
+ you click on a found item, the directory of the active panel will
+ change if the selected item is not in the current panel
+ directory. The results window supports dragging items to other windows
+ and copy to clipboard (<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>c</keycap></keycombo>).
+ When you close the Krusearcher window, the selected
+ item is selected in the active panel.</para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis role="bold">Feed to listbox</emphasis>
+ </para>
+ <para>When you click the
+ <guibutton>Feed to listbox</guibutton> button after the results
+ are displayed, then &krusader; ask for a Query Name,
+ this name will be used in the Results-Tab in the List Panel that
+ holds the search results. You can do whatever you want on the
+ files in the new tab. The location toolbar will display
+ &eg;
+ <filename>virt:/Search results 1</filename>.</para>
+ <warning>
+ <para>The files in the Results-Tab are actually the original
+ files. if you delete a file - it is removed!</para>
+ </warning>
+</sect1>