{"id":1479,"date":"2013-08-29T03:46:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T03:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2013-08-29T03:46:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T03:46:34","slug":"catfish-advanced-file-searching-tool-for-ubuntu-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/catfish-advanced-file-searching-tool-for-ubuntu-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Catfish: Advanced File Searching Tool for Ubuntu Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catfish is a versatile file searching tool. It is a search GUI powered by locate and find behind the scenes, with autocompletion from Zeitgeist and locate. The advanced options allow filtering by date and file type. The interface is intentionally lightweight and simple, using only GTK+.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/catfish-filesearch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/catfish-filesearch.jpg\" alt=\"catfish file search ubuntu\" width=\"468\" height=\"257\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/catfish-filesearch.jpg 468w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/catfish-filesearch-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>search files anywhere on your computer, include mounted partitions.<\/li>\n<li>search hidden files<\/li>\n<li>search files by modified time<\/li>\n<li>search files by type<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Install Catfish File Search:<\/h3>\n<p>You can install Catfish file searching tool in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise and their derivatives, such as Linux Mint and Elementary OS.<\/p>\n<p>Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands one by one to install the tool:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:catfish-search\/catfish-stable\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install catfish<\/pre>\n<p>Once done, you can open it from Unity Dash:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/catfish-filesearch-ubuntu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/catfish-filesearch-ubuntu.jpg\" alt=\"catfish file search ubuntu unity\" width=\"468\" height=\"207\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/catfish-filesearch-ubuntu.jpg 468w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/catfish-filesearch-ubuntu-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catfish is a versatile file searching tool. It is a search GUI powered by locate and find behind the scenes, with autocompletion from Zeitgeist and locate. The advanced options allow filtering by date and file type. The interface is intentionally lightweight and simple, using only GTK+. Features: search files anywhere on your computer, include mounted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[537,17,16,15],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-review","tag-catfish-file-search-tool","tag-ubuntu-12-04","tag-ubuntu-12-10","tag-ubuntu-13-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}