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Catfish - Command-line Options
The general usage of the command line options is:
catfish [OPTION...] path query
Here is a summary of all the options. Explanations are in the following sections.
- Application Options
- --version; -h, --help; -v, --verbose; --large-icons; --thumbnails; --iso-time; --exact; --hidden; --fulltext; --start
All of these options can also be configured on a permanent basis using the preferences dialog. Command-line options will override the preferences if there is a conflict.
Application Options
- --version
- Show Catfish version number and exit
- -h, --help
- Show command-line options and exit
- -v, --verbose
- Show debug messages (-vv increases verbosity)
- --large-icons
- Display results with large icons instead of thumbnails
- --thumbnails
- Display results with thumbnails instead of large icons
- --iso-time
- Display timestamps in ISO format
- --exact
- Perform “exact” searches, where search results must match the query string completely
- --hidden
- Include hidden files in the search results
- --fulltext
- Perform “fulltext” searches, where search results contain the query string in the file contents
- --start
- If path and query are provided, start searching when Catfish is started
- --close-after-select
- Closes the window after a file is opened
- --persist-after-select
- Keep the window open after a file is opened
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