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> &copy; 2000 by <SPAN
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>Alexander Kirillov</SPAN
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>       <TT
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>GNOME Search Tool</TT
> is a utility for
       searching files on your system. It can perform many types of
       search: by filename, by modification date, by file contents,
       etc. It is included in the
       <TT
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>gnome-utils</TT
> package, which is a part of
       the GNOME desktop environment. This document describes version
       1.0.51 of <TT
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>GNOME Search Tool</TT
>.
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> The search tool can be started by selecting
      <B
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>GNOME Search Tool</B
> from
      <B
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>Utilities</B
> submenu of the <B
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>Main
      Menu</B
>, or by running the command
      <B
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>gsearchtool</B
> on the command line.  
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>      Note that <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Search Tool</TT
> is just a
      front-end to the UNIX commands <B
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>find</B
>,
      <B
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>grep</B
>, and <B
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>locate</B
>. These
      commands are extremely powerful, but not very easy for a new
      user. <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Search Tool</TT
> provides an
      easy-to-use interface for most common uses of these commands. If
      you need to perform some type of search which is not covered by
      the <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>GNOME Search Tool</TT
>, chances are
      that you can do it from the command line, using
      <B
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>find</B
> and <B
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>grep</B
> with
      appropriate options. In this case, you should read the info
      pages for these commands, which can be done using the
      <TT
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>GNOME Help Browser</TT
>.
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