| Summary: | documentation for baloosearch unhelpful, is the search really that broad | ||
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| Product: | [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-baloo | Reporter: | John Bray <johnbray822> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | baloo-bugs-null |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | tagwerk19 |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 5.68.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
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I think, for a single word, you can search with
baloosearch Description:EXIF
If you want to search for a phrase containing the words
baloosearch Description:\"EXIF Image Description\"
If you want to search for the exact phrase, I've found that
baloosearch Description:EXIF_Image_Description
works.
There's more info under
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432004#c1
One more thing worth montioning, if you do a
balooshow -x filename
you will get a list of the metadata tags and values "read from" that file and you can use Baloosearch can search for these tags/values
I'll close this now but feel free to reopen if you've more questions.
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baloosearch --help provides very limited documentation. I have a file where balooshow Example.jpg has line Description: EXIF Image Description So I thought I'd be able to do a baloosearch against that metadata field. But its completely unclear what baloosearch is searching against. The huge number of results suggests its doing a free search of the contents of every file, which is of little use. I expected syntax like baloosearch -t Description EXIF to returns a files with that metadata but its opaque what the -t field does Baloo 5.68.0 Mint 20