# KDE User's Manual

&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;
June 07, 2005
K Desktop Environment
kfind
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# `kfind`

file find utility for &kde;

    kfind
    searchpath
    KDE Generic Options
    Qt Generic Options

## Description

The Find Files tool is a useful method of searching for specific files on your computer, or for searching for files that match a pattern. An example of this could include searching for files of a particular type or with certain letters in the filename, or that contain a certain piece of text in their contents.

&kfind; is a graphical tool, and not normally run from the command line.

## Options

`searchpath`

  You may optionally supply a colon separated path to prefill the dialog. You might use this ability to set up different icons on your panel or desktop to quickly run searches in different locations.

App options, in a variablelist

## See Also

More detailed user documentation is available from help:/kfind (either enter this URL into &konqueror;, or run ``khelpcenter` `help:/kfind``).

## Authors

The current maintainer of &kfind; is . A list of previous contributors is available in the complete user manual available in khelpcenter.

This documentation was prepared by &Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;