Finding Files
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Chapter 2. Finding Files

The Name/Location Tab

When starting KFind, you will see a quite simple window. Type in the name of the file you are searching in the textbox labeled Named:. Choose a folder where you want to search by typing it in the field Look in: or by clicking Browse... and press Enter or click Find. If Include subfolders is checked all subfolders starting from your chosen folder will be searched too. The results will be displayed in the box below.

You can use the following wildcards:

The Asterisk “*

The asterisk stands for any number of missing characters (even zero), that means e.g. searching for marc* may find the files marc, marc.png and marc_must_not_read_this.kwd. mar*.kwd may find marketplace.kwd and marc_must_not_read_this.kwd.

The Question Mark “?

In contrast to the asterisk, the question mark stands for exactly one character, so mar? will find marc, but marc? will not find anything, as our files are called marc and marc.png. You can put as many question marks in the term as you want, it will find exactly that number of characters.

Of course you can combine those two wildcard symbols in a search term.

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