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Does linux filesystem support fast file searching /indexing?

I wonder why aren't there any tool that enable one to find files on his harddisk very rapidly like "search everything" does .Just type a part of the file name and all files containing the keyword will show up instantly . Isn't it possible to design…
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How to search for files and file contents with a GUI?

When I use the search function in Nautilus it only returns files with matching file names. It doesn't even support wildcards. For example, "*.txt" doesn't return anything. I would expect it to return all .txt files. Anyway, is there a way, without…
waspinator
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Where can I find the files I just installed from the software center?

This is a rather basic question, when I install something from the Ubuntu Software Center, I have to look around a bit to find it. For example, I just installed but I cannot locate it. For some programs its obvious, for example Dropbox and Skype…
yayu
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How to see all installed applications

I am using Ubuntu 14.10 default GUI, how can I see all the applications installed ? if I don't give a search keyword I can't see anything.
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Searching techniques via Nautilus or otherwise

Lets say I have following files in a folder Blue-Green-Red Red-Yellow-Blue Green-Black-red Now I want to search files having 'green' and 'red' as part of their names (case insensitive), how i do that via nautilus or any GUI? Back in windows it…
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Is there something similar to SpotLight ( Mac ) for Ubuntu

Possible Duplicate: Alternatives to OS X's Spotlight? So it's quite clear, if you don't know what SpotLight is, well, it puts an icon on your taskbar, and then you can search ( Please ignore everything else but the icon, all I want is the icon…
Rigel Glen
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How do I speed up searches in files?

I know that on windows you can index your files to find things faster. Is there something like this for Ubuntu because when I search for something like /usr under files it says searching and it takes really long.
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Make updatedb ignore dot-paths

Anyone know how to make updatedb ignore 'hidden' paths? This isn't any kind of security issue; I just want updates to be faster. I've tried using the -n and -e flags with '.*' to no avail.
Andrew Bolster
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Program for managing "Profiles" (Home, work...)

I'm looking for a program that manage profiles for System settings like Network, Displays, Mouse, Power etc. For example: One profile for work to enable new Proxy Settings, setting Brightness and turn Bluetooth on. Another Profile for home, to…
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How to search and view docs installed in usr/share/doc

Possible Duplicate: How are typical users expected to read the documentation in /usr/share/doc? A way to search and view those docs using web browser is by Installing "dwww" but this needs apache2.2 to run in the back all the time.(It was…
Curious Apprentice
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Search for similar (non-exact-duplicate) files in a directory

Is there a command in Linux to recursively search a directory and find files that are similar to each other in content (name doesn't matter)? Perhaps using the levenshtein string distance. fdupes is not a good fit because I need to look for inexact…
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How can I search for multiple files at once? Linux GUI

In windows XP, after switching to advanced search mode I used to be able to search for multiple files merely by adding a comma between them like this.... 90025,90028,90094 and that would return the 3 image files that I was looking for. How can I do…
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Can't find my saved .jpg's

I just installed U 16.04 (fresh). I saved all my .jpg's from a search on U 12.04 to a external HD. I can not find them by looking thru folders. When I search the external HD, all 5349 of them show up. This is what remained, after I removed all…
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Typing "k" closes search

Typing "k" closes the Ubuntu/Unity search box. This means I can't search for anything containing a "k". I can't seem to find any relevant keyboard shortcut that I could've messed up or anyone else who's experienced this problem. Any ideas?
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How to find files that contains some Cyrillic word?

I want to search for files that contains some Cyrillic word (example in .MS word .doc files) with GUI. I tried gnome-search-tool but it does not work with Cyrillic. It say: no files found How should I proceed?
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