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Find files by name, type or content

KFind can be used as a standalone file search tool, launched by KRunner or from your menu. It is also integrated into Konqueror and Dolphin as Find File in the Tools menu. Being equipped with a GUI, it is often handier than the CLI tool named find which requires advanced skills in instruction syntax formulation.

A search is configured in a 3-tab window.

The Name/Location tab

Specify a file name
- use wildcards * and ? in the name
Specify a starting directory
Decide whether you want to also search sub-directories
Specify whether the search should be case-sensitive

The Contents tab

Select the file type to be search
Specify the search term
- it can be useful to have '*' set in the file name field in the Name/Location tab
Select case sensitivity
Should binary files be searched?

Note

A Contents search is necessarily much slower than a filename search, so be as specific as you can when defining it.

The Properties tab

Find files by creation date
Limit the criteria by age - e.g. "during the previous 2 hours"
Find files by size - e.g. "At Least 2 MB"
Limit the result to files owned by a specific user or group

All criteria set will be honoured in your search - you are not limited to the specifications in one tab, so you could search for any file in the directory /home or any directory below that, containing the word "Silkstone" which must be capitalized, and is owned by the group "Accounts".