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| <h1 class="topictitle1">Search for text and files on remote servers</h1> |
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| <p>You can search for text strings and files on any remote server |
| or file system, including Linux, UNIX, and Windows systems.</p> |
| <p>There are three main ways you can search for files and text strings |
| on remote servers, depending on your goal: |
| <ul> |
| <li>Search for text strings within a file</li> |
| <li>Search for text strings and/or files within a folder</li> |
| <li>Search for text strings, files, and/or folders within a remote file system</li> |
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| To search for files, text strings, and folders: |
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| <li>In the Remote Systems view, expand your Linux, UNIX, or Windows |
| connection until you reach the folder, file, or file system that you want |
| to search. Select the containing item by clicking on the item.</li> |
| <li>Right-click and select <b>Search</b>. Or, click <b>Search > Remote</b> from |
| the workbench menu. Or, for the keyboard shortcut, enter CTRL+H. All of these |
| actions will invoke the Search window. </li> |
| <li>In the Remote Search window, click the Remote Search tab if it is not |
| already in focus. You can now search for text strings, files, and/or folders, |
| with the option to use powerful Regular Expressions, in addition normal and |
| variable expressions, such as a*b. See <a href="http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/topic/org.eclipse.rse.doc.user/ref/rsearch.html" shape="rect"> |
| the RSE help on Using |
| search parameters with special characters</a> for more information. Regular |
| Expressions might be most familiar to Linux and Unix users. |
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| <li>To search for strings, in the <b>Search string</b> field, enter the string |
| that you want to search for, whether it be from a file, a folder, or an entire |
| file system. Select the <b>Case sensitive</b> or <b>Regular expression</b> check |
| boxes if they apply. Leave this field as an asterisk (*) if you do not want |
| to search for strings. You can use commas to specify more than one type of |
| string to search for. For example, you could enter "*.c, *.java, b?a.txt, |
| " and so on.</li> |
| <li>To search for files, in the <b>File name patterns</b> field, enter the |
| name of the file you are looking for. Check the <b>Regular expression</b> check |
| box if this option applies. Leave this field as an asterisk (*) if you do |
| not want to search for files. You can use commas to specify more than one |
| type of folder to search for. You can also click <b>Browse</b> to select file |
| extensions to search for.</li> |
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| <p><b>Note:</b> </p> |
| You cannot edit the contents of the <b>Folder</b> field; however, |
| you can click the <b>Browse</b> button to browse to and specify another folder. |
| If the <b>Folder</b> field is empty, you need to browse to a particular folder |
| before you can launch the search. |
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| <li>Click <b>Search</b>.</li> |
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| The matching strings and/or files display in the Remote Search view. |
| The view updates itself as more matches are found and you can click the <b>Stop</b> button |
| if you want to stop the search process. The view shows the strings and/or |
| files that you searched for, with the matches listed beneath in a tree-view |
| structure. For example, if you searched the file "README.txt" for the following |
| string, "*bin*", then the Remote Search results view might look like this: |
| <p><br clear="none"></br><img alt="" src="../../images/rse_search.gif"></img><br clear="none"></br></p> |
| <div class="p">To manipulate the set |
| of search results: |
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| <li>Right-click the parent items of the tree, in this example, "README.txt", |
| and you can select any of the regular Remote Systems options, for example, <b>Open |
| With</b>, <b>Rename</b>, <b>Properties</b>, and so on.</li> |
| <li>Right-click any line beneath the parent search item in the tree, in this |
| example, "bin/rmid and jre/bin/rmid": |
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| <li>Select <b>Copy</b> to copy the path as you see it to your clipboard.</li> |
| <li>Select <b>Go to</b> to open the file in an editor, which highlights the matching text. You can double-click on any line to perform the same action.</li> |
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