Findwild

Findwild is utility program to search for files. It works quite differently from other file search programs you have seen. It has a GUI interface and can recall past searches.

The following search criteria are available:

• directory path to search, with multiple wildcards ( * ? ) placed anywhere
• file name(s) to search for, with multiple wildcards anywhere
• file name(s) to exclude, with multiple wildcards anywhere
• file content string(s) to search for, with multiple wildcards anywhere
• file content string(s) to exclude, with multiple wildcards anywhere
• file creation/modification date within a desired range
• your choice of delimiters for search strings (defaults provided)
• search the list of files produced by the previous search

Programmers may find this program useful to search a large source library for references to a symbolic name (e.g. find linux header file for a particular function or symbol).

Tarball with source code, make file, user guide: downloads
DEB and RPM package: packages

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