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"Type ahead search" in Ubuntu 18.04+

Dawid Laszuk published on
2 min, 383 words

In Ubuntu 18.04, typing in Nautilus file manager makes a deep search through it's all subdirectories. This is potentially a powerful and convenient tool but, unfortunately, not for me as it doesn't fit into my workflow. I'm less of the GUI fan and only use a graphical file manager when I need to do some quick drag and drops on file bulks. Typically, if I'm using Nautilus, I'm already in the directory where I need to be and just want to quickly jump to a file/dir by the name. Shortly: yes, bring back the ye olde stuff.

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