Search for Phrase Words (or Domain or URL or Regexp)

Search for something to find out whether or not it's mentioned somewhere in the lists. If it is, find out which category mentions it. And find out for which filter groups that phrase is currently enabled.

Comments that include the search terms are listed along with non-comment lines, as the comments often contain relevant information. For example you may have recorded in a comment the reason why a particular item is not enabled for a particular filter group.

Many different kinds of things can be searched for: a word or phrase, a domain or host name, a URL, a pattern (regular expression) in a URL, or a pattern (regular expression) in modification instructions. In most cases (but not a pattern in modification instructions) just type what you're looking for and the program will figure out what it is. On the occasions when you want your search terms to be interpreted a particular way rather than relying on the automatic detection, click the appropriate selection at the right.

Searches are intelligent about which files to look in. They search different files depending on what kind of thing you're looking for. For example words should be looked for in all the phraselist files, but a URL pattern could not possibly be in the phraslist files.

On the results display, for each list file every filter group is shown with an indication of whether or not it currently uses that file. √ indicates the list is currently used by that filter group, ¬ indicate the list is not currently used by that filter group. This allows you to determine very quickly whether or not a particular restriction is enabled for a particular filter group.


Searches can also be performed on a computer other than the one that runs production DansGuardian, provided only that a copy of the files to be searched is present. However the list of filter groups and the indication of whether or not that filter group currently uses the file that was found may be inaccurate or incomplete.

And of course if the copy of the files to be searched (phraselists, blacklists, config lists, etc.) does not match the original on the computer that runs production DansGuardian, the display of what was found may be misleading.


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