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Ubuntu

How to search a certain folder or disk and only get the results for that folder or disk

Random-Ubuntu-User

2/28/23, 8:58 PM

I searched a disk for a certain file name and I got the results for the whole pc. I made sure the file manager window was inside the disk (CANON_DC) like this and searched ike.

The file manager window was in CANON_DC. As you can see by some of the directory names, like Documents/Jeshua.. and Pictues/fun photos... All these are from the home folder. I got files for the whole pc; not just the disk. How can I narrow this down?

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JoshuaD

2/28/23, 6:12 AM

Catfish is a really nice GUI solution, and it pretty easy to integrate with the various linux graphical file managers.

vanadium

2/28/23, 1:09 PM

Could that be because you are using tracker? Normal behaviour for Nautilus also would be to search starting from the current directory

sudodus

2/28/23, 9:06 PM

Is it OK with a command line solution, or must it be a GUI solution?

Will

2/28/23, 9:07 PM

@sudodus - would be nice to have both!

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Ubuntu

sudodus

2/28/23, 9:15 PM

The command line way

You can use find to find a file in a specified directory tree, for example

$ find ~ -name "*bashrc*"
/home/sudodus/.bashrc

$ find /etc -name "*bashrc*"
/etc/bash.bashrc
/etc/skel/.bashrc

find is a very powerful tool. It takes time to learn everything, but this is a good start. See man find, read tutorials via the internet and ask here at AskUbuntu in order to learn more about it.

The GUI way

It seems the built-in search tool in Files alias nautilus will search the whole computer. But there are many Linux tools, that can be installed in Ubuntu. You find them easily via the internet, e.g. via this link

Some of them let you specify the search path or 'filter', for example FSearch, ULauncher, Catfish.

Recoll is an advanced tool that can also search for content in the files (corresponding to grep on the command line).

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Arun

2/28/23, 12:59 AM

You can take the command-line solution to the next level by feeding the search results from `find` to file manager [`nnn`](https://github.com/jarun/nnn) so you can navigate through the results and analyze them visually - `find ~ -name "*bashrc*" -print0 | nnn -H`

sudodus

2/28/23, 1:07 AM

@Arun, yes, it is possible and some users will find it useful. You are welcome to write an answer where you show how to do it, for example with a demo with some screenshots.

Arun

2/28/23, 1:34 AM

I have shared the command which is an extension of your example. That should be enough to try it out.

sudodus

2/28/23, 1:38 AM

@Arun, OK. Anyway, I did look at your github page and the animation :-)

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