How to search any string on Gnome Console ?

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Wed Mar 18 06:01:38 UTC 2009


Ashish Vijaywargiya wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> How can I search any "string" in a gome-terminal ?
> I am looking for the option something similar that we do in firefox "Ctrl + f"
> 
> I works on web applications using tomcat so the need of finding any
> string arises regularly.
> Early help on this will be greatly appreciated.

Well, I don't think you'll be getting "early" help if you stick with
GNOME here.  This is a known bug
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-terminal/+bug/132501 and
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78963) since 2002.

I suggest you use konsole in the meantime:

sudo apt-get install konsole

Matt Flaschen




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