Re: Desktop search tools for Linux

2009-05-24 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 22:26 +0300, Dov Grobgeld wrote: > 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

Re: Desktop search tools for Linux

2009-05-24 Thread 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 > On Sunday 24

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

2009-05-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 08:52:39PM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: > 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 wo

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

2009-05-24 Thread 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 express

Re: Desktop search tools for Linux

2009-05-24 Thread Shlomi Fish
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 sp

Re: Desktop search tools for Linux

2009-05-24 Thread Ehud Karni
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

Desktop search tools for Linux

2009-05-23 Thread Omer Zak
I used Beagle as my desktop search tool, and eventually removed it because I felt it does not do good job indexing my stuff (I have plenty of free disk space so I was not worried by its storage requirements). However I still need some desktop search tool. The following article from 2007 http://www