Overview |
The Name Panel
|
The File Panel
|
The Date Panel
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Find
button, FastTraX will search
within the specified location, for files which match all
the criteria you have specified. Edit boxes that are empty are ignored.Name
PanelName
Panel.
Name
panel labeled Find in:
/boot/home
- your home directory
/boot/home/Desktop
- your Desktop
/boot/beos
- the BeOS system folder
/boot/optional
- the optional items folder (if installed)
other...
" option. Selecting this
will bring up an Open
window to allow you to select any other folder
you wish.
Named:
is where you can type in the name
of the file you are looking for.globs
, thus to seach
for all gif images you could put *.gif
into this box.*be*
*.txt
is the same
as *.TXT
or *.TxT
(etc)
File
PanelFile
panel is where you can place restrictions on the size, type
and contents of a file.File
panel, click the File
button at the top
of the FastTraX window.Containing Text
where you can search for a file based on its
contents.
Size at least
, Size less than
where you can place
restrictions on the size of the files you wish to find.
Kind
, allowing you to search for a Folder, Plain File or Symbolic
Link.
Containing Text
Kind
"
popup will NOT change to indicate this, but so that the search will work correctly,
the restriction will be added when you commence the search)
Size
...Size at least:
-  the minimum size of the file to find.Size less than:
-  the maximum size of the file to find.![]() | eg The screenshot to the left shows how to search for a file that is between 50kB and 200kB in size. |
Kind
Kind
PopUp allows you to specify the kind of filesystem entity you
are looking for.File
, Folder
, Link
or
"Any"
Date
PanelDate
Panel is where you can add criteria about the modification
or creation date of files.parsedate
which is
a function in the BeOS to convert a string into a date. parsedate
understands a large number of formats. Some examples are:
today
which will give you today at 0:00
today 3:15am
which will give you today at 3:15
last saturday 15:34:11
(3:34 PM (and 11 seconds) on the preceding Saturday)
this monday
(the coming monday, 0:00)
parsedate
has some problems with commas in the
strings, so you are better leaving them out. If FastTraX cannot understand the
date you enter, it will being up an alert to inform you.
As with the Size
section of the File
Panel, there are two edit boxes for the each for Modified
and
Created
. This allows you to specify a range of times to search, thus
if you know that you changed the file yesterday, you can enter
because "yesterday
" will default to 0:00 yesterday, and
"today
" will default to 0:00 today.
Tim Vernum 27th June 1999