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Can I search in the terminal backlog in Terminator
Terminator has a built-in search (ctrl-shift-f is the default keybinding), but it doesn't highlight the found text, which makes it fairly useless.
There's a bug open against terminator to fix this, ...
56
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How do I disable search-as-you-type text in Ubuntu 17.10 and later?
Gnome decided to remove the navigation feature type-ahead and replace it with search. They fail to see this is a big problem for many users.
Up until Ubuntu 17.10 Canonical provided a patched version ...
45
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How to find all empty files and folders in a specific directory including files which just look empty but are not?
From man find
-empty File is empty and is either a regular file or a directory.
So to find both empty files and directories it is sufficient to do
find ~/lists -empty
To indicate the type, you ...
44
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Traditional search-as-you-type on newer Nautilus versions
Ubuntu 22.10 and newer
Installation still works the same as with previous versions. However, after installing, you'll need to open nautilus preferences (ctrl + ,) and disable the new Search on type ...
35
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How do I disable search-as-you-type text in Ubuntu 17.10 and later?
Woohoooo! There is a brand new modified version of Nautilus.
See https://launchpad.net/~lubomir-brindza/+archive/ubuntu/nautilus-typeahead
I've been waiting for a long time before I find this feature ...
29
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Type Ahead search using Nautilus on Ubuntu 18.04
Type Ahead search was removed completely from Nautilus, aka GNOME Files, since Artful. Luckily, there is a patch on GitHub that adds this functionality back to Nautilus 3.26.3, the version installed ...
27
votes
Searching previous command history with PageUp in 14.04
Try this in ~/.inputrc
"\e[5~": history-search-backward
"\e[6~": history-search-forward
and reopen terminal.
25
votes
Find what packages are installed from a repository
Here is a shell script I wrote to display packages installed from different origins excluding Ubuntu. It uses common dpkg -l output format. It works faster than aptitude solutions.
#!/bin/sh
# Print ...
25
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What is the difference between locate/whereis/which
which finds the binary executable of the program (if it is in your PATH). man which explains more clearly:
which returns the pathnames of the files (or links) which would be
executed in the ...
22
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Built-in calculator to GNOME search window
The pre-installed GNOME Calculator in Ubuntu 18.04 is a snap application which may lack some features provided by the traditional one due to restrictions of snap packages.
Remove the snap application ...
21
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How do I disable search-as-you-type text in Ubuntu 17.10 and later?
I've participated to long debates with the Nautilus developers and we were not able to be convincing enough to have this feature as it was before. The only response was that it was going to be ...
20
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Explicit pictures show when searching "gedit" in Ubuntu Dash
This answer was written before you explained that the embarrassing results don't come from a list of recently used local files, but from the References scope.
It mainly targets at disabling local ...
18
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How can I search within a manpage?
Minor appendix to the excellent answer from Stefano:
man uses less when no other pager specified. So you can search either with / or with ?.
If you search with / then you search forward and you use ...
18
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How to search for all the man files that contain certain keyword?
From man man:
-K, --global-apropos
Search for text in all manual pages. This is a brute-force
search, and is likely to take some time; if you can, you should
specify a ...
18
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`grep`ing all files for a string takes a long time
Exclude virtual file systems
Looking at the sample output log we see virtual file systems are included in the search which is an unnecessary waste of time. Drop these and other directories from the ...
16
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How to find all empty files and folders in a specific directory including files which just look empty but are not?
From ~/list folder:
find . -empty -type d
for listing empty directories and
find . -empty -type f
for listing empty files.
find . -type f -exec bash -c 'if [ `cat "{}" |wc -w` -eq 0 ]; then ...
16
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How can I make Files search recursively within a network share?
In newer versions of Ubuntu (in my case 18.04) you can open from Files > Preferences > Search & Preview tab, and check "All locations" under "Search in subfolders".
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Nautilus doesn't have type-ahead search in Ubuntu 17.10
As pointed out here, type-ahead find has been removed in favour of full text search.
However, it is possible to make full text search behave more like type-ahead find. Simply open the Nautilus ...
15
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Enhancing the Nautilus search option
How to you use wildcards, especially the * (star) in Linux Ubuntu Nautilus GUI File Search?
I also was just struggling with this issue, but I think I found an answer.
Here are the equivalent Windows ...
14
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Where is search on Ubuntu Software Center?
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
The Search textbox is hidden by default, it is automatically displayed when typing.
14
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How to install Elasticsearch on 16.04 LTs
Elastic has their own guide to install elasticsearch with Debian packages. you can find it on their website.
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/deb.html
I used this one ...
13
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Where do files rsynced to a host go?
It's in the directory where you ran the command:
$ touch foo
$ ls -l foo bar@baz
ls: cannot access 'bar@baz': No such file or directory
-rw-rw-r-- 1 muru muru 0 May 30 16:53 foo
$ rsync -aP foo bar@...
13
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How to add calculations to the gnome search bar?
I found this from Built-in calculator to GNOME search window
The pre-installed GNOME Calculator in Ubuntu 18.04 is a snap application which may lack some features provided by the traditional one due ...
12
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How to search for all the man files that contain certain keyword?
This command will show you the filenames of man files that contain the keyword Stallman:
zgrep -l Stallman /usr/share/man/man?/*
Output in my 15.10 begins with:
/usr/share/man/man1/cat.1.gz
/usr/...
10
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Traditional search-as-you-type on newer Nautilus versions
Ubuntu 18.04+, Nautilus native solution
You can get a close behavior to search-as-you-type if you change the following options in the Nautilus Menu -> File -> Preferences -> Search & Preview:
...
10
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Searching previous command history with PageUp in 14.04
\e[A and \e[B are actually the Up and Down arrow keys. To test what a key is, run cat and then press the key:
$ cat
^[[A
^[[B
^[[5~
^[[6~
Those are ↑, ↓, Page Up and Page Down respectively. The ^[ ...
10
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get error apt-get search virtualbox E: Invalid operation search
Depending on your version of Ubuntu, the command is either apt-cache search (all versions) or apt search (14.04 and above), but not apt-get search.
9
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How can I tag files and search them later based on the tag?
Contents:
Introduction
Installation
Usage
Source code
1. Introduction
This solution consists of two scripts - one for tagging, one for reading the list of files under specific tag. Both have to ...
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How do I disable search-as-you-type text in Ubuntu 17.10 and later?
If you really want to have this functionality in Nautilus 3.26 (which is right now the current version in Ubuntu 17.10), check out my step-by-step guide to get it in this question: Traditional search-...
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