On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 12:30:29 -0600, Eric Chevalier wrote:
>
>I believe the issue some people are trying to address with a Unix
>catalog is the case where you DON'T know the full path. ...
>
>Now suppose I have some sort of index file where the key is the
>unqualified file name and the data is the path to that file. I can
>search the index for my file name and it should quickly show me all the
>locations where a file by that name is located. (Note that Windows has
>had such a facility since at least XP.)
> 
As has OS X.  Also search by substring of filename, and by content.

-- gil

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