Gnome Search Tool

[makitso]

I noticed that the gnome-search-tool is no longer in the universe repository. Any thoughts?

[mc4man]

Deleted in bionic-release (Reason: (From Debian) RoM; unmaintained limited usefulness; ....)
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...cgi?bug=885975

[makitso]

That's a shame Its the only full text tool that does not create an index. In my case, I use it quite a bit since my file system is dynamic.

[Olivier Berten]

+1

[logix2]

You can give Catfish, an Xfce tool, a try: https://bluesabre.org/projects/catfish/ It should be available in the Ubuntu repositories.

[Mehmet_nal]

Can gnome-search-tool be brought back to Ubuntu 18.04? I used it to search text in c++ files. Catfish is not nearly as practical and functional as gnome-search-tool. Or is there some other alternative which is as good as gnome-search-tool?

[cariboo]

Thread moved, as Bionic has been released.

[dragonfly41]

I use searchmonkey.

[logix2]

You can also use an IDE / code editor to search for text in files. Try Sublime Text 3 or Atom.

[Mehmet_nal]

I used gnome-search-tool for searching all text files under a directory that contained a certain text. I'm not sure a code editor can have such a built-in utility.

I tried searchmonkey, it's quite good, almost the same as gnome-search-tool.