&app;"> &app; &app_version;"> ]> Tobi Vollebregt

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Armin Straub

linux@arminstraub.de

Michael Schuerig

michael@schuerig.de

2005 Tobi Vollebregt 2005 Armin Straub 2002 Michael Schuerig &FDLNotice; &app_date; &app_version; &kio-locate; is a KDE I/O Slave for the locate command. KDE kio-locate kio_locate kiolocate locate slocate kio-slave kio_slave kioslave search &kio-locate; is a KDE I/O Slave for the locate command. This means that you can use &kio-locate; by simply typing in konquerors address box. You can e.g. type locate:index.html to find all files that contain "index.html" in their name. There's even more: You can use &kio-locate; in all KDE applications that accept URLs. To find out more about &kio-locate; and to look for new versions, you should take a look at arminstraub.de. You can use &kio-locate; mostly as you use locate. Instead of typing locate pattern at a command prompt, you start the search with &kio-locate; directly in konqueror. You just enter locate:pattern as the address. By default, a search locate:pattern is case insensitive if the pattern is lowercase. If the pattern is mixed- or uppercase the search is case sensitive. This default behaviour can be overridden. Hint: Type locater:config in the konqueror address bar to show the configuration dialog. Likewise, locater:help shows this help document. Regular wildcard characters may be used in the patterns passed to &kio-locate;: A star (*) matches any string with nonzero length, a question mark (?) matches a single character, and a character list ([abc-z]) matches the characters in the list. A character list can be inverted by putting a caret after the first square bracket ([^abc-z]). Every plus (+) in a search is used just as a star (*) is. Instead of locate:*.html you may also type locate:+.html. This is because you can't use the star in konqueror. In other apps both ways are supported. Should you need to use a plus in your search you have to escape it with a backslash. Instead of locate:g++ you have to use locate:g\+\+. Furthermore you can't use a slash as the last character of your query. O.k. you can, but KDE will ignore it. In such a case you can quote your pattern: Write locate:"servicemenus/" rather than locate:servicemenus/. A search as e.g. locate:~/*.doc works as you might expect. This means that ~/ and ~user/ are expanded correctly at the beginning of the pattern. You may add a filtering pattern after the first pattern, e.g. locate:fish home results in all files whose path contains fish AND home. A filtering pattern may be inverted by prefixing it with an exclamation mark. E.g. locate:fish !home results in all files whose path contains fish AND NOT home. Any number of filtering patterns may be used. With locate: wildcard matching is performed with all patterns. If you're a regular expression guru, you might want to use rlocate:, which enables regexp matching for all filtering patterns (that is: all patterns except the first one). Here's a screenshot of &kio-locate; Screenshot &underFDL; &underGPL; Also, I'd like to thank Google for their Summer Of Code Program and Jonathan Riddell for being my mentor! &documentation.index;