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<bookinfo>
<title>The &kfind; Handbook</title>

<authorgroup>
<author>&Dirk.Doerflinger; &Dirk.Doerflinger.mail;</author>

<othercredit role="translator"><firstname>John</firstname><surname>Knight</surname><affiliation><address><email>[email protected]</email></address></affiliation><contrib>Conversion to British English</contrib></othercredit> 

</authorgroup>

<copyright>
<year>2001</year>
<holder>&Dirk.Doerflinger;</holder>
</copyright>

<legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice>

<date>2004-04-11</date>
<releaseinfo>1.20.01</releaseinfo>

<abstract>
<para>&kfind; is &kde;'s file find utility. </para>
</abstract>

<keywordset>
<keyword>KDE</keyword>
<keyword>tdeutils</keyword>
<keyword>kfind</keyword>
<keyword>find</keyword>
<keyword>search</keyword>
</keywordset>
</bookinfo>

<chapter id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>

<para>&kfind; is the &kde; file find utility. </para>

<sect1 id="starting">
<title>Launching &kfind;</title>

<para>The Find Files tool is a useful method of searching for specific files on your computer, or for searching for files that match a pattern. An example of this could include searching for files of a particular type or with certain letters in the filename. You can load this utility by clicking on <guimenuitem>Find Files</guimenuitem>. This will launch &kfind;. </para>

</sect1>
</chapter>

<chapter id="kfind">
<title>Finding Files</title>

<sect1 id="name-tab">
<title>The Name/Location Tab</title>

<para>When starting &kfind;, you will see a quite simple window. Type in the name of the file you are searching in the textbox labelled <guilabel>Named:</guilabel>. Choose a folder where you want to search by typing it in the field <guilabel>Look in:</guilabel> or by clicking <guibutton>Browse...</guibutton> and press <keycap>Enter</keycap> or click <guibutton>Find</guibutton>. If <guilabel>Include subfolders</guilabel> is checked all subfolders starting from your chosen folder will be searched too. The results will be displayed in the box below. </para>

<para>You can use the following wildcards: </para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>The Asterisk <quote><keycap>*</keycap></quote></term>
<listitem>
<para>The asterisk stands for any number of missing characters (even zero), 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>. <userinput>mar*.kwd</userinput> may find <filename>marketplace.kwd</filename> and <filename>marc_must_not_read_this.kwd</filename>. </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>The Question Mark <quote><keycap>?</keycap></quote></term>
<listitem>
<para>In contrast to the asterisk, the question mark stands for exactly one character, so <userinput>mar?</userinput> will find <filename>marc</filename>, but <userinput>marc?</userinput> will not 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. </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

<para>Of course you can combine those two wildcard symbols in a search term. </para>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="kfind-date-range">
<title>The Contents Tab</title>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>File type</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Here you can specify the type of file you are searching for. </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<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 folder or checked <guilabel>Include subfolders</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>README</filename> files</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>KWord &gt;= 1.2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>KPresenter &gt;= 1.2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>KSpread &gt;= 1.2</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>Case sensitive</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>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>Regular expression</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>If you have installed the &kregexpeditor; tool from the tdeutils package, you will have this additional option. Enabling it will allow you to search for a <firstterm>regexp</firstterm> or regular expression. A regexp is a way to specify conditions for your search, and they can be very complex, and equally they can be very powerful. If you are unfamiliar with regular expressions, you can choose <guilabel>Edit Regular Expression</guilabel> to open &kregexpeditor;. This tool allows you to construct your set of conditions graphically, and then generates the expression for 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 its own help file.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

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</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>

</variablelist>

</sect1>

</chapter>

<chapter id="credits">

<title>Credits and Licence</title>

<para>&kfind; </para>

<para>Program copyright: </para>

<itemizedlist>
<title>Developers</title>
<listitem>
<para>Martin Hartig</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Stephan Kulow <email>[email protected]</email></para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Mario Weilguni <email>[email protected]</email></para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Alex Zepeda <email>[email protected]</email></para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Miroslav Flídr <email>[email protected]</email></para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Harri Porten <email>[email protected]</email></para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Dima Rogozin <email>[email protected]</email></para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Carsten Pfeiffer <email>[email protected]</email></para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Hans Petter Bieker <email>[email protected]</email></para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Waldo Bastian <email>[email protected]</email></para>
</listitem>
    
</itemizedlist>

<para>Documentation copyright 2001 &Dirk.Doerflinger; &Dirk.Doerflinger.mail;</para> 

<para>Conversion to British English: John Knight <email>[email protected]</email></para> 
&underFDL; &underBSDLicense; </chapter>

<appendix id="installation">
<title>Installation</title>

<sect1 id="getting-kfind">
<title>How to obtain &kfind;</title>
&install.intro.documentation; </sect1>

<sect1 id="requirements">
<title>Requirements</title>

<para>In order to successfully use &kfind;, you need &kde; 3.x. </para>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="compilation">
<title>Compilation and Installation</title>
&install.compile.documentation; </sect1>

</appendix>

&documentation.index;

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