A fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK3
GPL-2.0 License
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This release fixes a buffer overflow on some systems where the data type time_t
is less than 8 bytes in size. Typically this affects 32bit systems.
Published by cboxdoerfer about 2 years ago
Thanks to all translators and bug reporters and testers!
Published by cboxdoerfer about 2 years ago
Published by cboxdoerfer about 2 years ago
To get the bad news out of the way quickly: Unfortunately Snap support was removed. For more information about that see: https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch/wiki/Snap-is-no-longer-officially-supported
But now to the positive news...
The most important news is the updated search engine. Now it's finally possible to search for entries with a particular size, modification date, folder depth, extension, content type, number of children and more. For example, to find every MP4 file, larger than 1GB, you can simply type:
ext:mp4 size:>1gb
Like before, empty space will be treated as an AND
operator, but with this new release you can now also build queries with OR
and NOT
operators. For example, to find all JPG and PNG files, which were modified last month, with mum
or dad
in their name, you can simply type:
(mum OR dad) ext:jpg;png dm:lastmonth
For a more detailed list of features of the updated search engine see: https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch/wiki/Search-syntax
FSearch already had a few selected filters included, such as Videos
, Documents
or Archives
. Now it's possible to add new and modify existing filters in Preferences -> Search -> Filter
. This feature is especially useful for frequently used queries. For example, if you often find yourself searching within your backup drive you can now add a new filter:
After that Backup
will show up in the filter drop down menu, next to the search field, where you can quickly activate the filter:
Or you can also use the macro name, followed by an :
, in the search field, to activate filters on demand. For example, to find all files in your backup which were last modified more than 3 years ago you can then type:
backup: dm:<past3years
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files).desktop
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is pressedOpen with
menu only shows applications which support all selected files/proc
and /sys
by defaultMenu
key or Shift + F10
are pressedNow that searching is almost as powerful as I want it to be, the next 0.3 release will primarily focus on the database. My plan is to finally add the ability to monitor for filesystem changes, so you don't have to update the database manually so often. It will also add the ability to index (and search) additional information (like creation or access time).
I'm really grateful for all the contributions, whether it were code changes, bug reports, translations or donations!
Full Changelog: https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch/compare/0.1...0.2
Published by cboxdoerfer over 2 years ago
Published by cboxdoerfer over 2 years ago
Published by cboxdoerfer over 2 years ago
Published by cboxdoerfer over 2 years ago
This release makes some behind the scenes changes for better compatibility with Flatpak.
Published by cboxdoerfer about 3 years ago
Most significant changes since the last beta release:
Published by cboxdoerfer over 7 years ago
Many thanks to all the great contributors!
Published by cboxdoerfer about 8 years ago
NOTE: users of the alpha release deb package should remove it first before installing the beta release, since both packages are in conflict, to do so just do:
sudo apt-get remove fsearch-dev
Published by cboxdoerfer about 8 years ago