begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 05:24:31PM -0700: > Anybody have a good suggestions for a file search tool for RHEL/CentOS > 5? I'm looking for a binary package in order to avoid dependency hell. > > Suggestions to use find/xargs/grep shall be flamed. To be fair, grep is > fine for my home directory. Problems that I really need the search > system for are things that are "over there, somewhere, in some strange > directory that I don't know a priori".
I would assume you're already using find/xargs/grep, and are unsatisfied with that approach. > I don't need instant/online/concurrent updating as I'm primarily > interested in indexing things like /usr/include, /usr/man, etc. so that > when I need to figure out which blasted file has the definition for > ENOBUFS I don't have to digging all over creation. Isn't that what ctags is for? (Or, for emacs users, etags.) -- I hope it's not a linux equivalent to spotlight that's desired. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
