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MEDUSA-SEARCH-URI

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WARNING: This manual page is mostly cloned from the search_uri_rfc document in the medusa distribution and has been put into manual page form by someone who really doesn't know how it all works. It also documents what the aforementioned document says works at the moment, rather than how it ought to work eventually.  

Search method and root

gnome-search:

followed by a bracketed file system root:

[file:///]

At the moment medusa: or search: will also be accepted instead of gnome-search:. You are supposed to be able to specify multiple bracketed roots, which are supposed to be able to have protocols other than file:, and roots other than /, but I believe at the moment it has to be exactly as above.  

Criteria

criterion
criterion & criterion
criterion & criterion & criterion
...

According to the specification, vertical bars (|) can be used to specify an or relation, and parentheses (( and )) can be used to group criteria, but I believe neither of these features is currently implemented.

Below is the list of criteria that are understood:

file_name is string
file_name contains string
file_name does_not_contain string
file_name begins_with string
file_name matches glob-pattern
file_name regexp_matches regexp-pattern

directory_name is string
directory_name contains string
directory_name regexp_matches regexp-pattern
directory_name does_not_regexp_match regexp-pattern

(I think is_in means ``is a subdirectory of.'' Directory searches don't seem to work for me, though.)

file_type is application
file_type is_not application
file_type is music
file_type is_not music
file_type is text_file
file_type is_not text_file
file_type is file
file_type is_not file
file_type is directory
file_type is_not directory

modified is MM/DD/YYYY
modified is_not MM/DD/YYYY
modified is_before MM/DD/YYYY
modified is_after MM/DD/YYYY
modified is today
modified is yesterday
modified is_within_a_week_of MM/DD/YYYY
modified is_within_a_month_of MM/DD/YYYY
mtime is_before time_t
mtime is_after time_t

owner is login
owner has_uid uid
owner is_not login
owner does_not_have_uid uid

group is groupname
group has_gid gid
group is_not groupname
group does_not_have_gid gid

size larger_than byte-count
size smaller_than byte-count
size is byte-count

permissions_to_read include_uid uid

content includes_all_of string
content includes_any_of string
content does_not_include_all_of string
content does_not_include_any_of string

(This syntax is wrong for the content searches, but I don't know what the real syntax is, because even when I do a search from inside Nautilus I get the error message that the URI is invalid.)

keywords include keyword
keywords do_not_include keyword

I leave out the other search criteria that search_uri_rfc documents but says are unimplemented now.  

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