On 10/30/2017 07:29 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > >> For file searching, I can recommend SearchMonkey >> (http://searchmonkey.embeddediq.com/index.php/download), which can >> search both file names and content, understands regex expressions and >> generally does what I need (pretty easily). > > Thanks, I just grabbed it to try it. Nevertheless from a file explorer > like dolphin I expect to find all LyX files in all mounted drives when > I search for "*.lyx".
I'm not sure how you're trying to do that. But the truth is, and I'll confess this, that Linux is much more powerful if you're prepared to use the command line. Try this: find / -name *.lyx That will report all the *.lyx files on your system. (It will take a bit to read the whole filesystem.) The power lies not just in being able to do that, but in being able to control the other aspects of the find in really, really subtle ways. Some GUI interfaces to find do exist in dolphin and other file managers. In KDE, you can try kfind. I'd be curious to hear what it can't do that you need to do. Richard
