Find in file not working in geany on ubuntu 16.04

[raghuirs]

grep -nHIF -- $mail = new Mail(); (in directory: /drive2/www/html/opcsupportocmod/opcsupport_2031/)
/bin/grep: .idea: Is a directory
/bin/grep: admin: Is a directory
/bin/grep: catalog: Is a directory
/bin/grep: image: Is a directory
/bin/grep: system: Is a directory
Search failed.

[elextr]

The directory messages are normal with a non-recursive grep command.

As for the search failed, not knowing what is in your files can't say if it should or not.

[lpaulsen93]

@raghuirs: can this be closed?

[raghuirs]

no Thanks & Regards, Raghu Nathan A

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[elextr]

@raghuirs whilst @LarsGit223 may be a little premature on the closing, you need to provide more information on what you think does not work if you expect any progress. As I said the messages you posted are normal and expected.

[lpaulsen93]

@raghuirs:
Hi, as @elextr wrote, do you have any more information for us to describe the problem in more detail?
What is the expected result? How does the directory structure look like and in which files should the text be found? Could there be any permission problems?...

[lpaulsen93]

I cannot reproduce your problem. If I put the line $mail = new Mail(); then it is found by find in files. Of course, if the whitespace is not matching, e.g. a tab instead of a single space then there is no match.

[grubernd]

Can confirm this. (xubuntu 16.04 / geany 1.27) - using "Find in Files" in geany returns "No matches found" while the exact same command run in the folder with bash returns all the matches as expected.

[lpaulsen93]

@grubernd: could you provide an example file and search string so that we can reproduce the problem?

[grubernd]

@LarsGit223 .. I would, but of course now it works .... for the first time. The only thing I did different was create a new file and search for some string in it. From then on it worked with any string. But also in other instances, which it did not before. Very weird. I know that the commands were identical.

I took a look at the source code, but that style of coding is not my kind of sports, so no clue what's actually going on.

[elextr]

Find in files is part of Geany, not plugins, issue transferred.

[b4n]

The OP simply looks like the Recurse in subfolders option from the Find in Files dialog wasn't enabled. It is not enabled by default, which might be a bad idea, but activating it should fix the original issue (all those "is a directory" messages).