With Konqueror, (currently at 3.5.10), how do I search for filenames with square brackets "["?

jfb3 wrote:With Konqueror, (currently at 3.5.10), how do I search for filenames with square brackets "["?

Perhaps you should search for [. When I am using find and grep, I write

find . | grep "["

Cheers, m.

msoeken wrote:
Perhaps you should search for [. When I am using find and grep, I write

find . | grep "["

You didn't actually try it did you?
That was the first thing I tried. It doesn't work. You can't escape the bracket with a backslash.

Standard escaping for backslash works at the command line (of course) and in krename but so far not in konqueror/kfind with any method I can find.

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find . -iregex '.*[.*'

Alec wrote:

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find . -iregex '.*[.*'

Per the OP, I need to perform the with kfind/konqueror not at the command line.
But thanks for playing.

jfb3 wrote:

Alec wrote:

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find . -iregex '.*[.*'

Per the OP, I need to perform the with kfind/konqueror not at the command line.
But thanks for playing.

So what was the prize?

jfb3 wrote:

msoeken wrote:
Perhaps you should search for [. When I am using find and grep, I write

find . | grep "["

You didn't actually try it did you?
That was the first thing I tried. It doesn't work. You can't escape the bracket with a backslash.

Standard escaping for backslash works at the command line (of course) and in krename but so far not in konqueror/kfind with any method I can find.

I do not have 3.5.10 installed. Now I tried it with KDE 4.1 and it does not work. Could be a bug.

Cheers, m.

msoeken wrote:I do not have 3.5.10 installed. Now I tried it with KDE 4.1 and it does not work. Could be a bug.

It doesn't work with 3.5.9 either so it is quite certainly a bug.

Cheers,
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Okay I think I've solved my problem. What I needed was to get files loaded into krename (those that had a square bracket). I've discovered that I can do it at the command line with:

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krename *[*

Thanks!

/J