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.
For example, here is the function I use to search my home media:
lct ()
{
RSRC=`echo "$@" | tr " " "."`;
echo "locate -i -b -r '$RSRC'";
locate -i -b -r "$RSRC" | grep -E "(/media/[msf][oui][vbl])|(/ehud/tmp)"
}
The above can be written without the extended grep:
lct ()
{
RSRC=`echo "$@" | tr " " "."`;
echo "locate -i '$RSRC'";
locate -i --regex "((/media/[msf][oui][vbl])|(/ehud/tmp)).*${RSRC}[^/]*$"
}
Ehud.
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