In windows, when I am looking for a file in the current directory which name I (at-least partly) know. I simply start by pressing the first letter in the name, to jump to the first item starting with that letter.  In the default Ubuntu file-manager, it instead starts a search showing all items containing whatever input. How can I mimic the windows way?
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Recursive search in nautilus 3.6 completely breaks my keyboard navigation. I often navigate network volumes, and typing to get directly to a folder and clicking enter was very quick. Now typing removes everything in the view and imposes a 30 second delay which is completely useless.  If it showed whats in the current directory immediately, and then searched it would be fine, but as it is now I just want to turn it off. I couldn't find anything in dconf-settings. Anyone know how to disable it?
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Windows file system is case insensitive. How, given a file/folder name (e.g. "somefile"), I get the actual name of that file/folder (e.g. it should return "SomeFile" if Explorer displays it so)?  Some ways I know, all of which seem quite backwards:   Given the full path, search for each folder on the path (via FindFirstFile). This gives proper cased results of each folder. At the last step, search for the file itself. Get filename from handle (as in ). This requires opening a file, creating file mapping, getting it's name, parsing device names etc. Pretty convoluted. And it does not work for folders or zero-size files.   Am I missing some obvious WinAPI call? The simplest ones, like GetActualPathName() or GetFullPathName() return the name using casing that was passed in (e.g. returns "program files" if that was passed in, even if it should be "Program Files").  I'm looking for a native solution (not .NET one).
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Trying to locate a file, how can I search the entire hard drive for a file?
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I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS a little while and I consider myself a beginner.  I am using the Nautilus file manager:    I wonder if you can navigate the folders through the directory tree, like in Windows through folders or the + sign.
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When using find, how do I return the file name and the line number when searching for a string? I manage to return the file name in one command and the line numbers with another one, but I can't seem to combine them.  File names: find . -type f -exec grep -l 'string to search' {} \;  Line numbers: find . -type f -exec grep -n 'string to search' {} \;
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Possible Duplicate:          I'm having some confusion with the find command.  If I type:  find . -name *.xml   or   find ./ -name *.xml   I receive a list of all the xml files in subdirectories of the current directory, UNLESS the current directory contains an xml file, in which case I get:  find: paths must precede expression: foo.xml Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [-Olevel] [-D help|tree|search|stat|rates|opt|exec] [path...] [expression]   What is the correct way to search for files with wildcard when the current directory may contain a match?
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I am using locate command.   I want to find all files that end with specific extension and have specific keyword in their name.  For example I want to find image such as this:          myImageFromSummer.jpg      I want to search by keyword "Summer" and extension ".jpg".  How would command look like for this task?
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How do you get the first file in each subdirectory matching a list of file extensions?  My goal is to run a program on just any one of the files in a series of subdirectories.  For example, below there are 3 subdirectories.   I want to run the program on subdir1/file.dat, subdir2/file.d01 and subdir3/file1.dat given that I want to find files that have extension .dat or .d01.    subdir1 - file.dat, file.d01     subdir2 - file.d01, file.d02, file.d03     subdir3 - file1.dat, file2.dat   The following worked great for awhile, until I started to encounter directories like the last two.  subdir3 is problematic, since all files end up getting processed.   find . -name "*.dat" -exec mixb {} \;
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Possible Duplicate:          Using \input{filename}, I can input a file canned "filename.tex". I have a directory containing all of the files I want to include. How can I create a for loop, which inputs all of those files?   The contents of the directory sometimes changes (so I do not want to manually specify all of the files). The files are numbered (e.g. file01.tex, file02.tex), so the loop should have no difficulty inputing them in the correct order. Other code will be placed within the for loop (before and after the input command), so I do not want to simply list all of the files at once (e.g. \input{file01,file02}).
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I have a bunch of files on a Ubuntu box, which have various characters in their filenames that Windows doesn't accept (mostly ":" and "*", but possibly others).  What's the simplest way to get these all renamed and moved to a Windows machine? It's OK to replace these characters with something like "[colon]" and "[asterisk]".
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Instead of doing man chmod and then /a+x to jump to the first section in the chmod man page that mentions a+x, I would like to know if there is a way to open the man page to a specific search string, similar to how you can do vi +string filename.txt in vi(m).
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I have a directory (e.g., abc/def/efg) with many sub-directories (e.g.,: abc/def/efg/(1..300)). All of these sub-directories have a common file (e.g., file.txt). I want to search a string only in this file.txt excluding other files. How can I do this?  I used  grep -arin "pattern" *, but it is very slow if we have many sub-directories and files.
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I wanted to know, what is the best way to use the find command efficiently?  I generally use, find [filename] [dir] which gives me a long list of file names none of them any way related to my search.  I simply need to find one file in a particular directory. What is the command for that?
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I'm working on different Linux distributions.  In my .bashrc I'd like to set up an alias that opens a window of the default file manager (e.g. nautilus, nemo, pacman, ...).  Is there a way find out what the file-manager of a session is? (It does also depends on the session, doesn't it?)
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Since my first Windows 98 (and even now on Win7), I could enter the first 6 letters (symbols) of a folder's name and add ~1 after it (when there was just one folder with those six letters in current directory), and it would work as the full name of it. And it appears that if there are more than one folder with the same six first symbols in its name, I can use FOLDER~2 and so on, and it will open the corresponding folder, as if I entered its full name. Like c:\progra~1 will open C:\Program Files and c:\progra~2 will open C:\Program Files (x86) on win7 64 bit.  How does this work?
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I am using the following method to browse for a file:      OpenFileDialog.ShowDialog()     PictureNameTextEdit.Text = OpenFileDialog.FileName   Is there a way get ONLY the file name?  The FileName method returns the entire path and file name.  i.e. I want Foo.txt instead of C:\SomeDirectory\Foo.txt
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Before upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, I was using Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS. When I was in the file browser, I was able to access a file just by writing some letters; it just got selected and it was super fast.   After upgrading, when I start typing a search is launched and it's a little bit slow. I prefer the old method.  I tried searching on the internet but didn't know exactly what to type on the search bar.  How can I disable this automatic search? Thank you