GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 703356
allow file search to match globbing patterns such as '*.png'
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:28:50 UTC
Today, Nautilus's Select Items Matching feature lets me specify a globbing pattern such as '*.png' to select all files matching that pattern. Similarly, it would be nice if I could specify globbing patterns when searching for files. In fact I've already typed patterns such as '*.png' into Nautilus's search many times and been surprised when nothing matched, only to realize that Nautilus wasn't interpreting the asterisk as a wildcard. Globbing patterns are already familiar to many GNOME users, and supporting them will in no way decrease usability (or even be apparent) to those who don't know about them or don't want to use them. This is actually not a duplicate of bug 586125 "regular expression search feature", which is ambiguously worded but which we've decided to interpret as literally using regular expressions to match filenames, e.g. "^foo" matching filenames beginning with "foo".
This is along the lines of what Jon McCann suggested in bug #681871 so I guess we could either mark it as a duplicate or as a dependency...
(In reply to comment #1) > This is along the lines of what Jon McCann suggested in bug #681871 It doesn't seem so to me. What is proposed here is an enhancement of the (recursive) search feature, which would return glob matches from subfolders.
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