Searchmonkey
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- The correct title of this article is searchmonkey. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
| searchmonkey | |
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 A screenshot of searchmonkey UI |
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| Developer: | Adam Cottrell |
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| Latest release: | 0.8.1 / 05 February 2007 |
| OS: | Linux, other Unix and Unix-like systems |
| Use: | Text searching |
| License: | LGPL |
| Website: | http://searchmonkey.sf.net |
searchmonkey is a Gtk+ search utility originally written for use with the Unix operating system. Searchmonkey allows files, and contents of files to be matched using regular expression. The results are displayed showing the lines containing matches for the regular expression. Like Gtk, it is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.
[edit] Features
Searchmonkey allows you to:
- Search specific folders for filenames
- Match text strings on lines within a matched file
- Limit results by file size/modified dates.
[edit] See also
- find - Unix tool for finding files given an expression using the CLI
- grep - Unix tool for finding expressions within a text file/string from the CLI
- GNU locate - alternative search database using the Unix CLI
- Beagle - Desktop search system for Linux.
