mate-search-tool(1)

💖 mate-search-tool(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the General Commands Manual, and it's all about mate-search-tool — the MATE Search Tool. yeah. the lil app that finds ur files. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

mate-search-tool — the MATE Search Tool. that's it, that's the name, she's simple and she serves 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mate-search-tool [options]

or — and this is the iconic part — you can just select Search for Files... from a Main Menu, or from the Places menu in a Menu Bar. no terminal required, no cap 🫶

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

MATE Search Tool is a utility for finding files on your system. fr fr, that's her whole job and she ate.

To do a basic search, you just type a filename or a partial filename — with or without wildcards, she's flexible like that ✨

To refine your search, you can apply additional search options. glow-up mode activated 💖

MATE Search Tool uses the find, grep, and locate UNIX commands. iconic trio, no notes.

⚠️ okay important: the case sensitivity of the search depends on your operating system. for example, on Linux, the find, grep, and locate commands support the -i option, so all searches are case-insensitive. so like, don't come for her about capitalization on Linux, she simply does not see it 👑💀

For full documentation see the MATE Search Tool online help.

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

one bullet per flag, bestie, and there are a LOT of them. she's thorough.

• --help — shows the help message. the classic. the moment u need her most 🥺
• --named=STRING — sets the text of the "Name contains" search option.
• --path=PATH — sets the text of the "Look in folder" search option.
• --sortby=VALUE — sorts files by one of the following: name, folder, size, type, or date. pick ur fighter ⭐
• --descending — sets the sort order to descending. the default is ascending, jsyk.
• --start — automatically starts a search. no waiting, she's eager 🔥
• --contains=STRING — selects and sets the "Contains the text" search option.
• --mtimeless=DAYS — selects and sets the "Date modified less than" search option.
• --mtimemore=DAYS — selects and sets the "Date modified more than" search option.
• --sizemore=KILOBYTES — selects and sets the "Size at least" search option.
• --sizeless=KILOBYTES — selects and sets the "Size at most" search option.
• --empty — selects the "File is empty" search option. (empty file representation 💀)
• --user=USER — selects and sets the "Owned by user" search option.
• --group=GROUP — selects and sets the "Owned by group" search option.
• --nouser — selects the "Owner is unrecognized" search option. mystery owner energy 🙈
• --notnamed=STRING — selects and sets the "Name does not contain" search option.
• --regex=PATTERN — selects and sets the "Name matches regular expression" search option. regex girlies rise 🌸
• --hidden — selects the "Show hidden and backup files" search option.
• --follow — selects the "Follow symbolic links" search option.
• --mounts — selects the "Exclude other filesystems" search option.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

MATE Search Tool was originally written by George Lebl (<jirka@5z.com>). Version 2 was written by Dennis M. Cranston (<dennis_cranston@yahoo.com>).

This manual page was originally written by Jochen Voss <voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de>. Version 2 was written by Dennis M. Cranston (<dennis_cranston@yahoo.com>).

shoutout to the devs, absolute legends, we love them 🫶👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• find(1)
• locate(1)
• grep(1)

and that's the whole page bestie ✨ this came from mate-utils 2.27.1, dated March 16 2009 — yes she's an elder but she still slays 💅💖 bye love u 🎀