On 4/27/07, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
>> 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 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.
>
> beagle?
That's one. Others are Rekoll and Pinot. There are others.
Not *one* of the has an RPM for RHEL that I can see.
Worse, Beagle uses Mono (open source C#). I avoid Mono like the
Microsoft plague it is.
This just in from Linux Magazine. Looks potentially useful.
< http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/79/Recoll_Desktop_Search.pdf >
carl
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