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Any way to search for text within nano?

Nano is the editor I use in command prompts. When I open a large file I would like to search for some text (think Ctrl + F). Is there a way to do this?
JD Isaacks
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Traditional search-as-you-type on newer Nautilus versions

Until now I was using a "traditional" version of Nautilus: that that comes with Ubuntu 10.10. Now I'm using 3.6.3, included with Ubuntu 13.04 (most likely any recent version is equivalent for the scope of my question, anyway). One major difference…
deprecated
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How to search entire hard drive for a file?

Trying to locate a file, how can I search the entire hard drive for a file?
Blankman
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How can I search within a manpage?

Is there a option to search within manpages?
NES
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How to search for all the files starting with the name "ABC" in a directory?

I need to search for files starting with some particular name. There can be multiple files starting with a particular pattern and I want to list all such files present in the directory.
R11G
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How do I find packages to install via apt-get

After doing a man apt-get and cursory Google search it's not clear how I find new programs to install (from the internet) using apt-get (which is amazingly powerful and simple coming from another Linux distro). I'm using Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS (an…
r00fus
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How to search strings inside files like in Windows without search monkey?

I am using Ubuntu on VMWare but I cannot connect to internet because of security restrictions. I was wondering if there was a way to search for strings through the terminal and find which line the string is located on within the file.
user138056
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command to find files by searching only part of their names?

Say there are files with names: batman.c debate.c cricketbat.c What command and how should I use it to list all these files by using the searchtag bat?
srk_cb
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Grep, ignore warnings

I am trying to find the installation directory of a particular package. I have a certain keyword using which I am trying to find a particular file. During grep, I only want to include cpp or h file type. I do not want the grep to show warnings like…
Neeraj Gupta
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How do I disable search-as-you-type text in Ubuntu 17.10 and later?

I cannot find enable-interactive-search in gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences enable-interactive-search true. I searched using gsettings list-recursively | grep search and gsettings list-recursively | grep interactive but no…
Amir
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Search text within multiple pdfs and docs

I got a bunch of notes written by other students, but they are from an old textbook that didn't deal with everything in the same order, so I need to search through the notes for every chapter (each individual chapter is in a different .pdf or .doc)…
Rabbit
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Find what packages are installed from a repository

I'm trying to find what packages I have installed from a repository using terminal commands. I found a post somewhere saying I could use aptitude search "?origin () ?installed", but I couldn't get it working. I tried searching for a…
Obsidian Jackal
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how to find a word in text files from a directory

Suppose that I have a directory with name _file and includes two sub directory like _1 and _2 and on each one I have some text files. I want to search a word like foo in one of these text files. How I can do that? I want to know which text files in…
Mohammad Reza Rezwani
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How do I search a PDF file from command line?

I'm checking references of a paper and want to find the positions in the body where some paper (in the references list) is referenced. Is there a PDF editor which supports search via bash and extract the context of a position? I've tried to convert…
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Can I search in the terminal backlog in Terminator

I'm using Terminator as my terminal. Is there a built-in way to find/search through the output backlog? I'm not looking for grep and piping a command, or piping into less or vim.
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