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Find

A search bar over a terminal that finds text anywhere in its output.

Keys ⌘F 1 min read

How it works

  1. Press ⌘F in a terminal, or right-click it and choose Find. A bar opens over the terminal.
  2. Type what you are looking for. The bar counts the matches as it reads the output and shows which one you are on, such as "3 of 12".
  3. Press Enter to go up to the match before, since a terminal is read from the bottom. Press Shift+Enter to come back down. The arrows beside the field do the same, and both wrap round at the ends.
  4. Press Esc, or the close button, to put the bar away. The keyboard goes back to the terminal.

Good to know

  • The three tiles before the field turn on Regex, Match Case and Whole Word.
  • Find searches the whole scrollback, not only what is on screen, and never holds up the terminal while it reads.
  • A "+" after the count means it is still reading, or that there are more matches than it keeps count of.
  • Find and Unfold share one place on the terminal, so opening one closes the other.

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