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<bookinfo>
<title>The &kfind; Handbook</title>

<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Dirk</firstname>
<surname>Doerflinger</surname>
<affiliation>
<address><email>ddoerflinger@web.de</email></address>
</affiliation>
</author>

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</authorgroup>

<copyright>
<year>2001</year>
<holder>Dirk Doerflinger</holder>
</copyright>

<legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice>

<date>2001-06-24</date>
<releaseinfo>1.10.00</releaseinfo>

<abstract>
<para>
&kfind; is &kde;'s file find utility.
</para>
</abstract>

<keywordset>
<keyword>KDE</keyword>
<keyword>kdeutils</keyword>
<keyword>kfind</keyword>
<keyword>find</keyword>
</keywordset>
</bookinfo>

<chapter id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>

<para>
&kfind; is the &kde; file find utility.
</para>

<sect1 id="starting">
<title>Launching &kfind;</title>

<para>
You will find the entry <guimenuitem>Find Files</guimenuitem>. This will
launch &kfind;, a handy application for finding files or even
expressions within files.
</para>

</sect1>
</chapter>

<chapter id="kfind">
<title>Finding Files</title>

<sect1 id="name-tab">
<title>The Name/Location Tab</title>

<para>
When starting &kfind;, you will see a quite simple window. Type in the
name of the file you are searching in the textbox labeled
<guilabel>Named:</guilabel>, choose a directory where you want to search
by typing it in the field <quote><guilabel>Look in:</guilabel></quote>
or clicking <guibutton>Browse...</guibutton> and hit
<keycap>Enter</keycap> or click <guibutton>Find</guibutton>. If
<guilabel>Include subdirectories</guilabel> is checked, all
subdirectories starting from your chosen directory will be searched,
too. The results will be displayed in the Box below.
</para>

<para>
You can use the following wildcards:
</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>The Asterisk <quote><keycap>*</keycap></quote></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The asterisk stands for any number of missing characters (even zero),
that means &eg; searching for <filename>marc*</filename> may find the
files <filename>marc</filename>, <filename>marc.png</filename> and
<filename> marc_must_not_read_this.kwd</filename>. Otherwise,
<filename>mar*.kwd</filename> may find
<filename>marketplace.kwd</filename> and
<filename>marc_must_not_read_this.kwd</filename>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>The Question Mark <quote><keycap>?</keycap></quote></term>
<listitem>
<para>
In contrast to the asterisk, the question mark stands for exacly one
character, so <filename>mar?</filename> will find
<filename>marc</filename>, but <filename>marc?</filename> won't find
anything, as our files are called <filename>marc</filename> and
<filename>marc.png</filename>. You can put as many question marks in the
term as you want, it will find exactly that number of characters.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

<para>
Of course you can combine those two wildcard symbols in a search term.
</para>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="kfind-date-range">
<title>The Date Range Tab</title>

<para>
In this tab you can tell &kfind; the date period when the file(s) to be
found have been created or edited last time.
</para>

<para>
Choosing <guilabel>All files</guilabel> will tell &kfind; not to worry
about dates. If you check <guilabel>Find all files created or
modified:</guilabel>, you can either enter two dates, between which the
files were changed or created, or specify a period of previous months or
days where the files should lay in.
</para>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="kfind-advanced">
<title>The Advanced Tab</title>

<para>
Here you can refine your search or only look for files that contain a
specific word or phrase.
</para>

<para>
These are the special refinements you can choose:
</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Of Type</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Here you can specify the type of file you are searching for.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Containing Text</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Type in the word or phrase the files you are searching for must
contain. Note: If you do this in a large directory or checked
<guilabel>Include Subfolders</guilabel>, this may take a long time.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Size is:</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Here you can specify if the file has to be at least or as most as
big as the size (in KB) you entered in the following box.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Case Sensitive</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Usually, &kfind; doesn't matter of cases, so searching for
<filename>marc.png</filename> will find <filename>marc.png</filename>
and <filename>Marc.png</filename>. If you enable this option, it will
only find files with the exact case matching, in our example only
<filename>marc.png</filename>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Use Regular Expression Matching</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>If you have installed the &kregexpeditor; tool from
the kdeutils package, you will have this additional option.  Enabling
it will allow you to search for a <firstterm>regexp</firstterm> or
regular expression.  A regexp is a way to specify conditions for your
search, and they can be very complex, and equally they can be very
powerful.  If you are unfamiliar with regular expressions, you can
choose <guilabel>Edit Regular Expression</guilabel> to open
&kregexpeditor;.  This tool allows you to construct your set of
conditions graphically, and then generates the expression for
you.</para>

<para>&kregexpeditor; is a very useful tool, and can be used from within
many &kde; applications other than &kfind;.  You can find more
information from within it's own help file.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</sect1>

</chapter>

<chapter id="credits">

<title>Credits and License</title>

<para>
&kfind; 
</para>

<para>
Program copyright:
</para>

<itemizedlist>
<title>Developers</title>
<listitem>
<para>Martin Hartig</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Stephan Kulow <email>coolo@kde.org</email></para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Mario Weilguni <email>mweilguni@sime.com</email></para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Alex Zepeda <email>jazepeda@pacbell.net</email></para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Miroslav Flídr <email>flidr@kky.zcu.cz</email></para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Harri Porten <email>porten@kde.org</email></para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Dima Rogozin <email>dima@mercury.co.il</email></para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Carsten Pfeiffer <email>pfeiffer@kde.org</email></para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Hans Petter Bieker <email>bieker@kde.org</email></para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>Waldo Bastian <email>bastian@kde.org</email></para>
</listitem>
    
</itemizedlist>

<para>
Documentation copyright 2001 Dirk Doerflinger
<email>ddoerflinger@web.de</email>
</para>
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</chapter>

<appendix id="installation">
<title>Installation</title>

<sect1 id="getting-kfind">
<title>How to obtain &kfind;</title>

&install.intro.documentation;

</sect1>

<sect1 id="requirements">
<title>Requirements</title>

<para>
In order to successfully use &kfind;, you need &kde; 3.x.
</para>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="compilation">
<title>Compilation and Installation</title>

&install.compile.documentation;

</sect1>

</appendix>

&documentation.index;

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