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

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

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</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 &tde;'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 &tde; 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 labeled
<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 &tde; applications other than &kfind;.  You can find more
information from within its own help file.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

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</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>

</variablelist>

</sect1>

</chapter>

<chapter id="credits">

<title>Credits and License</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> 

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</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 &tde; 3.x.
</para>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="compilation">
<title>Compilation and Installation</title>

&install.compile.documentation;

</sect1>

</appendix>

&documentation.index;

</book>