Locate is necessary but not sufficient (was: Re: Desktop search tools for Linux)

[Omer Zak]

On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 14:55 +0300, Ehud Karni wrote:
> On Sun, 24 May 2009 02:01:43 Omer Zak wrote:
> >
> > What search tool would you recommend for use today?

> What's wrong with `locate' (beside it is not being updated during the
> day ?). You can wrap it any way you want, it has regular expression
> search, and it is fast. I use it both in work (over 3.5M files in 69K
> directories) and at home (~900K files) and it works fine.

The 'locate' command is good for locating files by parts of their names.
It needs to be complemented by a tool which looks for stuff inside the
files, and which understands their various formats and encodings.

For example, how would I search for all E-mail messages and other files,
which mention you (Ehud Karni) by name?
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