KruSearcher: find what you're looking for

Welcome to Krusader's powerful search module - nicknamed Krusearcher. It is the most able tool (that we know of) for Linux®, since it allows so many different ways to quickly find the file you're looking for. The search function is also available on remote file systems. It is divided into two levels, the general and the advanced. Let's take a look at the general page ...


Krusearcher General

Krusearcher General.


The page is divided into four parts: top (search for) part, bottom part - titled 'containing text', left part - titled 'search in' and right part which is called 'don't search in'. Obviously, each part handles different aspects of the search. Let's look at them closely.

Top Part:

Left and Right Part:

Bottom Part:

The above screenshot shows a search for all the files which end with c, cpp or h and include the string 'testing 123'. Krusader will search in /root, /opt, /bin and /usr, but not in /usr/lib and /usr/share.

Clicking the "Search" button starts the search and displays the results page. During the search, you may press the "Stop" button to stop the search. The "Close" button is not operational during a search, so you must first stop the search and then "Close" the window. When a result is found, double clicking on it will make Krusader's active panel point to the found files - but will not close the search window, so you'll be able to click on a different result.

Sometimes, you need to narrow your search even more. Krusearcher allows a much finer search, and for that, let's look at the "Advanced Page"...


Krusearcher Advanced

Krusearcher Advanced.


This screenshot shows a search for files which size is between 10KB and 150KB, which were modified between October 10th and November 1st. Which belong to any user in the 'ftp' group, and are readable and writeable by anyone in the 'ftp' group but only readable to the rest of the world.

The advanced page is divided into three parts: size, date and ownership.

Size

Allows you to choose the size range of the file you're looking for. By checking the checkboxes, you can search for a file which is bigger than XXX bytes (or KB, MB), smaller than XXX bytes or, by checking both search for a file which size is bigger than XXX but smaller than YYY.

Date

This part offers three different ways of defining a date criteria:

Ownership

Note

To clarify, the screenshot above (the permissions part) describes a search for files that belong to any user in group 'ftp', are readable, writable but not executable to any user in the group, are readable but not writable or executable to the rest of the world and have unknown permissions to its owner.

Clicking on the "Search" button to start the search and opens the Results window. Here you can see the progress and the the results of the search action. If you want you can stop the current search action with the "Stop" button. In the result list select the file and use F3/F4 to view/edit or use the right-click menu. When you click on a found item, the directory of the active panel will change if the selected item is not in the current panel directory. When you close the Krusearcher window, the selected item is selected in the active panel.