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Search results in Unity are always empty [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Dash search gives no result
This is a bit similar to Unity File Lens Giving Useless or No Results but worse - I have a relatively clean install of 11.04, upgraded from 10.10, ...
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Is anyone aware of any progress made in packing updated versions of tracker (desktop search tool)?
I understand that tracker is no longer installed by default on the Ubuntu desktop. Nevertheless, I really like having a desktop search tool. (When I used to work with Windows XP I thought that Google ...
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Shouldn't Unity's dash's "find files" find files that I haven't used yet?
Searching for files in Dash brings up all the files I have used but none of those I haven't used yet. Shouldn't it show all files with the title I search for instead of just the ones I have already ...
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How to exclude a subtree from the find command
So I'm trying to find all the mercurial repositories in my home directory
$ find ~ -name ".hg" -or -name ".git"
This works fine, but it finds a lot in the ~/.local/share/Trash subdirectory
How do I ...
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Grep, ignore warnings
I am trying to find the installation directory of a particular package. I have a certain keyword using which I am trying to find a particular file.
During grep, I only want to include cpp or h file ...
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How to search pdf files by their metadata
I have a lot of pdf files with metadata like title, subject, author and so on.
But neither nautilus nor synapse nor gnome-do can find any files by their metadata. Is there any program or plugin to ...
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Is there a way to grep the gnome-terminals history?
Is the terminals output (i.e. not commands) history hiding somewhere that lets me do something like..
grep "foo foo \d{5}" ~/.terminal
I'm aware I can simply pipe stuff to grep, or save it to a ...
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Advanced searching in Tracker Search Tool? Filter by folders?
I have checked several "Tracker Search Tool" questions, but they all stop at very superficial usage. Google, at least for me, didn't turn out anything either. I am using Maverick, 10.10.
Here is my ...
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How to search Firefox Bookmarks?
Is it possible to do a fulltext search (or even better regexp) automatically on all websites I have in my bookmark list?
Edit
Is there any other browser where this is possible?
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Software for text search in files
I am looking for a software that will search text in files from a folder similar to XYplorer.
Is there something similar?
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Google image search super slow
I've just started using Ubuntu (10.10) so I have a reasonably fresh install.
Regardless of if I use the Firefox 4 latest beta or 3.6.13. Google image search is dead slow and sometimes intermittently ...
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How can I open the containing folders of items in Nautilus search results?
After searching for a file in Nautilus, how can I open its parent folder?
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Nautilus File Search is not working
Nautilus File Search is not working. It is as simple as that. Nothing is ever found.. Nothing happens... (Nautilus 2.30.1, on Lucid 10.04)
The same version of Nautilus running in a VM works fine, ...
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Dolphin Search Toolbar is missing its text field. How can I get it back?
A while ago, my Search Toolbar bar went missing in dolphin.
I'm referring to the Search Toolbar found under Settings>Toolbars Shown>Search Toolbar. I used to sit at the very top right corner of the ...
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Is there a command-line utility app which can find a specific block of lines in a text file, and replace it?
UPDATE (see end of question)
The text "search and replace" utility programs I've seen, seem to only search on a line-by-line basis...
Is there a command-line tool which can locate one block of ...
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Indexing File Contents
People seem to have already asked about indexing file system:
What options are there for indexing my filesystem?
What are the alternatives to OS X's Spotlight?
but I want to actually just index a ...
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Find projects that use a particular programming language in Launchpad?
On Launchpad.net, most projects list the programming language(s) their software uses:
It would be useful if there was a way to get a list of all the projects that use "X" programming language, in my ...
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Search Launchpad for PPAs matching software or package name?
Is there a way to search though LaunchPad's PPAs for a certain package name? For instance if I was looking for PPAs with Firefox packages I could search for "firefox" and retrieve a list of all the ...
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Is there any software that will do face recognition in photos?
I would like to automate the process of tagging my photos with subjects' names.
Is there any software for Ubuntu that can perform face recognition on a local photo collection?
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Is there a gedit plugin that adds search features?
I'm hoping to add search and replace within selection and search within files. Having a search option in the context menu would also be handy.
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Thunderbird won't remember that I've turned off Global Search and Indexing
I've turned off Thunderbird's "Global Search and Indexing" over and over again. I've deleted the global-messages-db.sqlite file more than once.
This works for one session, but as soon as I restart my ...
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How can I search for filenames with special characters?
How can I search for filenames with special characters? I'd like to search this folder for any files or subfolders that contain special characters. I'd also like to do this with one string if possible ...
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Why does Google search always count more results in Firefox or Chrome than in Chromium?
It really puzzles me that any Google search counts far more "results" in Firefox or Chrome than in Chromium. Google says "About 1.460.000 results" for "natty narwhal" in Firefox or Chrome but only 914....
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What options are there for indexing my filesystem? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does Ubuntu have an alternative to OS X's Spotlight?
Wondering what people are using to index and search their file systems. I'm looking for something with low resource ...
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How to get Docky to work like gnome-do?
Is there a way to get Docky ton act like Gnome-Do? I installed just the docky package. I would like it to be able to search for other things that are not in the dock. Is this possible or would it just ...
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How do I find packages to install via apt-get
After doing a man apt-get and cursory Google search it's not clear how I find new programs to install (from the internet) using apt-get (which is amazingly powerful and simple coming from another ...
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