GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 373398
Advanced search options (like regex)
Last modified: 2019-02-23 02:44:19 UTC
It would be useful to have advanced search features like matching case, escaped newlines, and regular expressions. Maybe an existing commandline tool can be shelled and parsed to save time and code duplication.
GLib should get, in the current developement cycle, support for perl compatible regular expressions (PCRE); this should make this feature possible without having to use an external tool.
For filename searches these features already exist, just select the "Name matches regular expression" search option. Is that what you are asking for? Thanks.
No. I mean regexing file contents.
*** Bug 456126 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It looks like Cees beat me to the punch. See the duplicate bug 456126 for an extended description.
My mistake... you're looking to match based on file contents.
gnome-search-tool is not under active development anymore. Its codebase has been archived: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gnome-search-tool/commits/master Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather reactivate the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.