On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 18:26 -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 12:50 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: > > How often do people here actually -use- beagle? > > > > I removed it after finding I never really used it, and that the > > default short cut for it and the memory usage it required to do little > > more than a 'find -print0 blah | xargs -0 -iARG grep "string" ARG ' > > quite frankly disgusting > A 'find ... |grep' would take a looong time to run just on my home > directory. A good solution would be a tool that actually indexes files > in the background, and perhaps automatically when a file is > changed/added/removed. And not just text in files but also other kinds > of metadata. And when I click that file/data/whatever it would be cool > if it automagically opened the appropriate viewer and took me to the > exact location of what I am searching for. Pretty much a one-stop shop > for searching my stuff.
The find can only be used when the file are txt files and not pdf/OOo/Excel etc Unfortunately. I've only used it like 2-5 times thus far.. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
