Search for text and files on remote servers

You can search for text strings and files on any remote server or file system, including Linux, UNIX, and Windows systems.

There are three main ways you can search for files and text strings on remote servers, depending on your goal:

To search for files, text strings, and folders:
  1. 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.
  2. Right-click and select Search. Or, click Search > Remote from the workbench menu. Or, for the keyboard shortcut, enter CTRL+H. All of these actions will invoke the Search window.
  3. 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 the RSE help on Using search parameters with special characters for more information. Regular Expressions might be most familiar to Linux and Unix users. Note:
    You cannot edit the contents of the Folder field; however, you can click the Browse button to browse to and specify another folder. If the Folder field is empty, you need to browse to a particular folder before you can launch the search.
  4. Click Search.
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 Stop 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:





To manipulate the set of search results: