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? --- Omer -- "Kosher" Cellphones (cellphones with blocked SMS, video and Internet) are menace to the deaf. They must be outlawed! (See also: http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/2006/04/21/the-grave-danger-to-the-deaf-from-kosher-cellphones/) My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il