John wrote: > Hi > I recently found that I could use kfind to find files with several suffixes by > entering *.pdf;*.txt;*.doc etc. There is nothing in the help files on this > general area of use. Assuming that it provides a graphical interface for > something in linux itself I could use man to find out what options are > available. But just what does it use? > > Alternatively - I want to search off root and exclude certain directories from > the search. Is there a syntax to do that and/or to search a list of > directories? In this instance I favour exclude to avoid a lot of typing. If you have KRegExp installed, you can use regular expressions to find or not find files as you see fit. ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.