Search for Files Manual
A search tool to find files, folders and documents on your computer.

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The Search for Files application enables you to search for files on your system. To perform a basic search, you can type a filename or a partial filename, with or without wildcards. To refine your search, you can apply additional search options.
Search for Files uses the find, grep, and locate UNIX commands. By default, when performing a basic search Search for Files first uses the locate command, and then uses the slower but more thorough find command.
The case sensitivity of the search depends on your operating system. For example, on Linux, the find, grep, and locate commands support the -i option, so all searches are case-insensitive.

Getting Started
You can start Search for Files in the following ways:
From a Menu Bar on a panel 	 Choose Places Search for Files...
From a Main Menu on a panel 	 Choose Search for Files...
From a command line 	 Execute the following command: mate-search-tool
When you start Search for Files, the following window is displayed.

Search for Files Window
Shows Search for Files main window.

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To Perform a Basic Search
To perform a basic search for a file on the system, perform the following steps:
Enter the search text in the Name contains field. The search text can be a filename or partial filename, with or without wildcards, as shown in the following table:
Name Contains Text	Example	Result
Full or partial filename	myfile.txt	Search for Files searches for all files that contain the text myfile.txt in the filename.
Partial filename combined with wildcards (*, [, ])	*.[ch]	Search for Files searches for all files that have extension .c or .h.
In the Look in folder field, select the folder or device from which you want Search for Files to begin the search.
Click Find to perform the search.
Search for Files searches in the directory that you specify and the subdirectories of the directory. Search for Files displays the results of the search in the Search results list box. If Search for Files does not find any files that match the search criteria, the application displays the message "No files found" in the Search results list box.
By default, Search for Files will perform a quick search using the locate command followed by a more thorough second search using the find command. The locate command is faster because it uses a database of information about files. If this database is more than a week old, Search for Files could warn you that the search results may be out of date and give you the option of disabling the quick search. To update the database, run the command updatedb as the root user.

To Add Search Options
You can add additional options to search for a file on the system. To add search options, perform the following steps:
Click on the Select more options text.
Click on the Available options drop-down list.
Select the search option that you want to apply.
Click Add.
Specify the required search information for the search option, as described in Search Options.
Repeat the above steps for each search option that you want to apply.
To remove a search option from the current search, click on the Remove button next to the option.
To disable the search options from the current search, click on the Select more options text.

Search Options
Option Name	描述
Contains the text	Search for files of type plain text that contain the specified text.
Date modified less than	Search for files that are modified less than the period specified in days.
最後修改時間多於	Search for files that are modified longer than the period specified in days.
Size at least	Search for files that are equal to or larger than the size specified in kilobytes.
Size at most	Search for files that are smaller than or equal to the size specified in kilobytes.
檔案是空白的	Search for empty files.
Owned by user	Search for files that are owned by the user specified. Type the name of the user in the text box provided.
Owned by group	Search for files that are owned by the group specified. Type the name of the group in the text box provided.
無法識別擁有者	Search for files that are owned by a user or group that is unknown to the system.
Name does not contain	Search for filenames that do not contain the string that you enter. Enter a full filename or a partial filename with wildcards in the field provided. Use * to indicate a sequence of characters. Use ? to indicate a single character. The search is case-sensitive.
Name matches regular expression	Search for files that contain the specified regular expression in their directory path or filename. Type the regular expression in the text box provided.
顯示隱藏或備份的檔案或資料夾	Include hidden and backup files in the search.
跟隨符號連結	Follow symbolic links when searching for files.
排除其他檔案系統	Search in directories that are in the same filesystem as the start directory.

To Stop a Search
Click Stop to stop a search before Search for Files completes the search.

To Open a Displayed File
To open a file displayed in the Search results list box, perform one of the following steps:
Right-click on the file, then choose Open.
Double-click on the file.
To open the folder that contains a file displayed in the Search results list box, right-click on the file, then choose Open Containing Folder.

To Delete a Displayed File
To delete a file displayed in the Search results list box, right-click on the file, then choose Move to Trash.

To Save the Search Results
To save the results of the last search that Search for Files performed, right-click in the Search results list, then choose Save Results As. Enter the name of the file to which you want to save the results, then click Save.

Settings
Search for Files provides gsettings keys to modify some of its behavior. The gsettings values can be changed by starting the Configuration Editor in the following ways:
Applications menu 	 Choose System Tools dconf Editor.
命令列 	 Execute the following command: dconf-editor

停用快速搜尋功能
Key name: org.mate.search-tool.disable-quick-search
Default value: false
Search for Files speeds up file name searches by using the locate command. Locate provides a secure way to index and quickly search for file names. Because locate relies on a file index, the Search results list may not always be up to date.

停用快速搜尋第二次掃描功能
Key name: org.mate.search-tool.disable-quick-search-second-scan
Default value: false
After completing a quick search, Search for Files will perform a thorough search using the find command. The purpose of this second scan is to find files that have not been indexed. Files that match the search criteria are added to the Search results list keeping the list up to date.

不包含路徑的快速搜尋
Key name: org.mate.search-tool.quick-search-excluded-paths
Default values: [/mnt/*,/media/*,/dev/*,/tmp/*,/proc/*,/var/*]
Search for Files will not perform a quick search for paths defined by this key. File name searches in the defined paths will use the find command. The wildcards '*' and '?' are supported.

不包含路徑的快速搜尋第二次掃描
Key name: org.mate.search-tool.quick-search-second-scan-excluded-paths
Default values: [/]
Search for Files will not perform a second scan after a quick search for the paths defined by this key. Quick searches in the defined paths will not be followed by a thorough search using the find command. The wildcards '*' and '?' are supported.

顯示額外選項
Key name: org.mate.search-tool.show-additional-options
Default value: false
This key determines if the Select more options section is expanded when Search for Files is started.