Catfish File Search
Introduction
Catfish is a handy file searching tool for Linux and Unix. The interface is intentionally lightweight and simple, using only GTK+3. You can configure it to your needs by using several command line options.
You are encouraged to run catfish –help to check out the various command line options.
- Introduction to Catfish – What makes Catfish special
- Usage – Basic handling of the application
Configuration
- Command-line Options – Parameters for starting Catfish
Required Packages
- GLib (GLib / GObject Python bindings: GdkPixbuf, GLib, GTK 3, Pango, Cairo, Xfconf)
- locate or mlocate
Latest Release
- catfish 4.16.0 released (2021/01/08 13:01)
catfish 4.16.0 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/catfish/4.16/catfish-4.16.0.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/catfish/4.16/catfish-4.16.0.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/catfish/4.16/catfish-4.16.0.tar.bz2?sha256 What is catfish? ================ Catfish is a handy file searching tool for linux and unix. The interface is intentionally lightweight and simple, using only GTK+3. You can configure it to your needs by using several command line options. Website: https://xfce.org Release notes for 4.16.0 ======================== - Fulltext now searches files with UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16 BE/LE, and UTF-32 BE/LE encodings - Replace Gtk/Gdk/GLib deprecated code (#6) - Use "match all" method for fulltext search (#30) Translation Updates: Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Kabyle, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish