Search doesn't work for me. What am I doing wrong?
by silverlining from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4YTAR)
I'm new here and can't make heads nor tails of Search. For instance, I make it simple and tell the search window to search for awk and it returns, Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms. About half the times that I try to search, I get, The LinuxQuestions.org database has encountered a problem.
I happened to find a different way that works but it seems it's not the normal way. I go to a forum, then click the New Thread button. In the Subject, I type the word awk. Then when I click on the button, Click Here to Find Similar Threads, I see lots of them listed. Surely that's not the intended way to search!
I also found a [SOLVED] post #786514 (I think), which told how to use Goggle to search. I tried it that way and got screens full of LinuxQuestion.com answers.
If I can't even find one word, how do I do a complicated search with several words?
I happened to find a different way that works but it seems it's not the normal way. I go to a forum, then click the New Thread button. In the Subject, I type the word awk. Then when I click on the button, Click Here to Find Similar Threads, I see lots of them listed. Surely that's not the intended way to search!
I also found a [SOLVED] post #786514 (I think), which told how to use Goggle to search. I tried it that way and got screens full of LinuxQuestion.com answers.
If I can't even find one word, how do I do a complicated search with several words?