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PROGRAM:

NAME

findfiles - Utility to locate files containing specific content

SYNOPSIS

findfiles [switches]

DESCRIPTION

Very often when you are programming in any programming or scripting language, you want to
find out how a particular function works or whether a particular property is settable, or
any of a number of other questions. In many cases, you can find the answers to your
questions by looking at the source code of the application or tool you're using. This is
sometimes referred to as "code shopping," particularly when what you really hope to find
is a method that does exactly what you want to do. The PythonCard findfiles tool is
designed to support you in these efforts.

Type in a string for which to search, tell findfiles the directories (yes, you can have
more than one) in which to search for files containing that string, and send findfiles off
to locate files with that specific content. Scroll through the list of files, each with a
line reproducing part of the located line for each occurrence in the file, find the one
you think is what you are looking for, and double-click the line. Voila! The PythonCard
codeEditor tool opens and scrolls instantly to the line you've selected.

SWITCHES

-p Show property editor

-m Show message watcher

-l Enable logging

-s Show shell

-m Show namespace

-d Show debug menu

REGULAR EXPRESSIONS

The findfiles utility uses classic Unix grep (regular expression) searches.

The grep utility uses a technique called regular expression matching to locate
information. In regular expressions, some characters have a special meaning. If you want
to search for any of these special characters in the strings you supply in findfiles,
you'll have to escape them by preceding them with a backward slash (\) character.

While there are many such characters in regular expressions, the ones with which you will
need to be most careful are: question mark (?), asterisk (*), addition/concatenation
operator (+), pipe or vertical bar (|), caret (^) and dollar sign ($). To search for a
dollar sign in the target directories, for example, put "\$" into the search field.
(Putting in a $ by itself will crash findfiles fairly reliably.)

On a Debian system, you can see the manpages for grep(1) or regex(7) for more information
on grep and regular expressions.

NOTES

The findfiles utility also provides additional functionality that is not discussed in this
manpage, because it is somewhat difficult to completely describe usage of a GUI program in
a text-based manpage. For more detailed usage instructions or for more information on the
PythonCard GUI framework in general, you should install the pythoncard-doc package and
take a look at the various walk-throughs, tutorials and samples included with it.

Once the pythoncard-doc package is installed, the documentation is installed to
/usr/share/doc/pythoncard-doc, and is also available via Debian's doc-base infrastructure
- find it in the Devel section using dwww(1), doc-central(1) or dhelp(1).

If you would rather not install the pythoncard-doc package, you can find essentially the
same information on the PythonCard website:

http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net

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