On Wednesday 30 Nov 2005 12:43, Peter Mann wrote: > Mandriva 2006. Is Kat the thing to use to find files and directories ? > Irrespective what I ask it to search for, always same answer : No Files
Maybe others have a better experience, but for me kat is unusable. A much better solution IMO is slocate (urpmi slocate) slocate maintains a database of all file names and will search in seconds. install anacron at the same time and once a week a job will run to reindex the database. After installing slocate run 'updatedb' in a root terminal to initialise the database for the first time, then you can do 'slocate string' to return the locations of all files whose name contains that string. In konqueror you can do searches on the URL line with locate:string if you install the package kio_locate (In contrib) The downside of slocate is it can only return references to files that existed when the last database reindexing was performed. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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