Linux Mint Introducing Regex Searches to Nemo

Finding the exact files you want in the Nemo file manager will soon be easier and faster. Linux Mint has announced ‘enhanced’ search functionality will feature in the next major release of its GTK-based Nemo file manager (likely to see release the same time as Cinnamon 6.5 and be shipped out-of-the-box in Linux Mint 22.1 this July). New filters let you search, sift and surface files using regular expressions (often abbreviated to simply ‘regex’) queried against filenames (not contents). Linux Mint’s lead shares a sneak-peak screenshot of the filters in action: Regular expressions are powerful and easy to to use […] You're reading Linux Mint Introducing Regex Searches to Nemo, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

Apr 9, 2025 - 16:42

Finding the exact files you want in the Nemo file manager will soon be easier and faster. Linux Mint has announced ‘enhanced’ search functionality will feature in the next major release of its GTK-based Nemo file manager (likely to see release the same time as Cinnamon 6.5 and be shipped out-of-the-box in Linux Mint 22.1 this July). New filters let you search, sift and surface files using regular expressions (often abbreviated to simply ‘regex’) queried against filenames (not contents). Linux Mint’s lead shares a sneak-peak screenshot of the filters in action: Regular expressions are powerful and easy to to use […]

You're reading Linux Mint Introducing Regex Searches to Nemo, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.