Desktop search tools for Linux

[Dov Grobgeld]

Perhaps this would suit your needs?

 http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/

It can be configured to look through a large variety of files. I once
thought to set it up to improve search in a mediawiki configuration, but I
never got around to it.

Regards,
dov

2009/5/24 Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il>

> On Sunday 24 May 2009 14:55:43 Ehud Karni wrote:
> > On Sun, 24 May 2009 02:01:43 Omer Zak wrote:
> > > What search tool would you recommend for use today?
> > >
> > > My tradeoffs:
> > > - Ability to retrieve all results of a search, rather than say the 100
> > > most recent ones.
> > > - Plenty of hard disk space, so it need not be economized.
> > > - After initial indexing, the daemon (or whatever) for handling new
> > > material should not load the PC too much.
> >
> > 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.
>
> A few problems with locate:
>
> 1. It doesn't do full-text search, and just searches according to the
> filename. You can perform text search on its results using "xargs grep",
> "xargs ack" or a similar tool, but this is slower than indexing. And if you
> don't know the filename - you'll need to search through a lot of files.
>
> 2. It doesn't handle compressed or otherwise encoded filenames properly. It
> isn't content-type sensitive.
>
> ----------------------
>
> Beagle and its friends are better in those regards. I should note that I'm
> not
> using Beagle or whatever, because I didn't really find a need for them, and
> because someone told me he once used a similar program for MS-Windows and
> as a
> result became disorganised and could not find his files afterwards.
>
> Regards,
>
>        Shlomi Fish
>
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