Chapter 10. Searching with Beagle / 10.3. Performing a Property Search | ||||
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 | 10.2. Search Tips | 10.4. Setting Search Preferences |  | |
Chapter 10. Searching with Beagle / 10.3. Performing a Property Search | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.2. Search Tips | 10.4. Setting Search Preferences | | |
By default, the Beagle search tool looks for search terms in
the text of documents and in their metadata. To search for a word
in a particular property, use
property:query.
For example, author:john searches for files that
have “john” listed in the Author property.
Table 10.1. Supported Property Keywords
|
Keyword |
Applies to |
Property |
|---|---|---|
|
album |
Music files |
Name of album |
|
artist |
Music file |
Name of artist |
|
author |
Document |
Author of the document (same as ???) |
|
creator |
Document |
Creator of the document, mapped to dc:creator (for example, creator of PDF files) |
|
|
Address book |
E-mail address |
|
extension or ext |
File |
File extension (for example, extension:jpeg or ext:mp3). Use extension: or ext: to search in files with no extension. |
|
genre |
Music file |
Genre of music |
|
imagecomment |
Image file |
Comments and descriptions found in images that have an IPTC caption or Exif comment |
|
imagemodel |
JPEG image |
Model of camera (for example, EOS2D) |
|
imagetag |
Image file |
F-Spot and Digikam image tags, and IPTC keywords |
|
mailfrom |
|
Name of sender |
|
mailfromaddr |
|
E-mail address of sender |
|
mailinglist |
|
Id of mailing list (for example, dashboard-hackers.gnome.org) |
|
mailto |
|
Name of recipient |
|
mailtoaddr |
|
E-mail address of recipient |
|
speakingto |
Chat |
Speaker |
|
title |
Document |
Title of document, mapped to dc:title (for example, title tag of HTML files) |
Property searches follow the rules mentioned in Section 10.2, “Search Tips”. You can use
property searches as an OR query or as an exclusion query, and
phrases can be used as query. For
example, the following line will search for all PDF or HTML
documents containing the word “apple” whose author property
contains “john” and whose title does not contain the word
“oranges”:
apple ext:pdf OR ext:html author:john
-title:oranges
