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How do I disable indexing in a specific directory across multiple platforms?
I have some files that will be accessed across several platforms (Mac OS X and Windows 7 mainly, but I wouldn't rule out Linux in the future) and I do not want these files indexed by the search ...
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grep returning wrong messages in GNOME Desktop(Linux)
I need to search a particular string inside a folder structure.
The File system contains multiple files, but i need to check only XML files.
I searched and tried the commands for Linux Recursive ...
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How to run updatedb, excluding some paths, but not removing previous indexed content for those paths?
I have a strange question, and i am not sure this is something doable at all, thats why i am asking it to the SuperUser :)
So, imagine that you have your filesystem with some mount points for ...
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Search all files containing text
With Busybox, how do you search for an expression within a bunch of files recursively through a bunch of directories, but only look through text files?
We don't know what the file's suffix is going ...
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What's an alternative to “Everything” search for Linux?
In windows there is a pretty good search tool named Everything, which can let us search files by name. It's very fast, and easy to use.
Now I wonder if there is any similar tool in Linux? Command ...
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how to search file at server
i'm newbie at linux...
1. i want to make backup database(use mysqldump)
2. copy from server(use linux-server) to client PC (use linux- ubuntu 9.0)..
3. before that i want to search that DB file using ...
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KDE 4 find files/folders
For some reason, every time I press Ctrl+F in Dolphin or Konqueror, the "Find Files/Folders" dialog remembers "ruby1.9", which I entered in the filename field a long time back. Clearing it or using ...
