<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="task" id="txt-search"> <info> <revision version="0.1" date="2013-03-03" status="candidate"/> <link type="guide" xref="index#textoutput"/> <credit type="author copyright"> <name>Sindhu S</name> <email>sindhus@live.in</email> <years>2013</years> </credit> <credit type="copyright editor"> <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name> <email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email> <years>2013</years> </credit> <credit type="copyright editor"> <name>Michael Hill</name> <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email> <years>2013</years> </credit> <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/> <desc>Search the <app>Terminal</app> output.</desc> </info> <title>Search for text</title> <p>You can search text in the <app>Terminal</app> output:</p> <steps> <item> <p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Search</gui> <gui style="menuitem">Find…</gui></guiseq>.</p> </item> <item> <p>Type in the search keyword and press <key>Enter</key> to search backwards. Alternatively, click on the arrows according to the desired search direction.</p> </item> </steps> <p>You can search using the following options to narrow down your results:</p> <terms> <item> <title><gui style="checkbox">Match case</gui></title> <p>Make the search case sensitive: this restricts results to only those that match the case of your search keyword.</p> </item> <item> <title><gui style="checkbox">Match entire word only</gui></title> <p><app>Terminal</app> will look for the entire keyword and will ignore results that partially match your search keyword. For example, if you have searched for “cat”, <app>Terminal</app> will show only results that match this keyword exactly and omit results such as “bobcat”.</p> </item> <item> <title><gui style="checkbox">Match as regular expression</gui></title> <p>You can use regular expression patterns, also known as regex patterns, in your search keywords. <app>Terminal</app> will display the results that match these search terms.</p> </item> <item> <title><gui style="checkbox">Wrap around</gui></title> <p><app>Terminal</app> searches from your current location in the scrollback to the end of available terminal output and then restarts the search.</p> </item> </terms> <note style="tip"> <p>If you expect to work with a lot of <app>Terminal</app> output, increase the <link xref="pref-scrolling#lines">scrollback lines</link> to a higher limit to allow <app>Terminal</app> to search further back.</p> </note> </page>
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