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