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lost document forgot filename

Asked by Erik Bobo

Hello everybody! I wrote something a few months ago, I saved it, but I cannot find it now (i have done a back up and installed the new ubuntu, but I am pretty sure I kept everything somehow)
I don't remember the filename apparentely, is there a way to search for a document knowing specific words that are in the document?
how do you do that?
thanks a lot!
Erik

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snd (dns) said : 		#1

In which application you have saved the file?

For example in Gedit: Just open the editor and click 'file' in menu, there you should see a list of last opened documents.

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snd (dns) said : 		#2

and yes you can search through documents with grep, type in terminal: man grep
also with gnome-search-tool you can

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Erik Bobo (bolnerge) said : 		#3

it was an open office document.
don't remember if I saved it in odt or doc
the word I am looking for is "loris"
what do I have to type exactly after man grep?
sorry I am quite a beginner...
thanks!

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snd (dns) said : 		#4

grep is quite extended, i cant describe all functions in short here, but an example:

grep -iR --exclude-dir=/var --color=auto 'loris' /

This command searches for the word 'loris' recursively '-R' and incase sensitivity 'i' through the whole mounted storage devices '/', excluding '/var' dirs and automatically colors the output '--color=auto'.

Maybe for beginners its easier to use gnome-search-tool.
If you have it not installed that yet, do 'sudo apt-get install gnome-search-tool', then you should be able to start it from your menu or by typing in terminal just 'gnome-search-tool' without '.

I hope that helped :-)

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