GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 340332
wildcards should work with the search feature
Last modified: 2014-03-31 21:05:24 UTC
That bug has been described on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/41704 "I get no results when i search on NTFS with nautilus. My search term: "win*.dll" If i search on the terminal i find a few files with: /media/sda1/WIN$ find . -name win*.dll ... > Thanks for your bug. Do you have beagle installed? ... So, i have beagle not installed. Should i do this? I have only the "libbeagle0" installed .... Hm. I'm sorry. It has to do nothing with NTFS. It's a generally problem. I don't understand the search engine in nautilus, i think :( I search after "py" and i see many dirs & files... If i now change the search term to "*.py" there are no results. (empty list) With ".py" there are files found... Is the starlet not supported?"
*** Bug 341246 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Beside the wildcards, Regular Expression support would be useful.
in gnome, wildcards for searching work in some places and not in other: the "*mp3" search string works fine in Places > "Search for Files", but it doesn't work at all in the integrated nautilus search! this makes for a poor user experience, specially for new users.
I also think that the Nautilus integrated search function should support wildcards too. I don't see a reason why it doesn't...
I don't know how I can delete or added the previous comment, so I post my "improved" comment again. Actually, I thought the previous wasn't posted (it wasn't displayed and it hang when I pressed Save Changes) when I started writing this one. I also think that the Nautilus integrated search should make use of wildcards. Maybe even a possibility for regular expressions somehow but main point should be wildcards (especially as they are easier to use - though they don't support that accurate searches, in most cases they are accurate enough for file searches - and therefore better for new users or general if you just have to do a simple search). I actually don't understand why it doesn't already work. After all the Search for Files option already provides wildcard support.
*** Bug 602007 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 309758 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
They should work now.