You will find the entry Find Files. This will launch KFind, a handy application for finding files or even expressions within files.
When starting KFind, you will see a quite simple window. Type in the name of the file you are searching in the textbox labeled Named:, choose a directory where you want to search by typing it in the field "Look in:" or clicking Browse... and hit Enter or click Find. If Include subdirectories is checked, all subdirectories starting from your chosen directory will be searched, too. The results will be displayed in the Box below.
![]() | You can use the following wildcards: |
The asterisk stands for any number of missing characters (even zero), that means e.g. searching for marc* may find the files marc, marc.png and marc_must_not_read_this.kwd. Otherwise, mar*.kwd may find marketplace.kwd and marc_must_not_read_this.kwd.
In contrast to the asterisk, the question mark stands for exacly one character, so mar? will find marc, but marc? won't find anything, as our files are called marc and marc.png. You can put as many question marks in the term as you want, it will find exactly that number of characters.
Of course you can combine those two wildcard symbols in a search term.