Claude Heiland-Allen said :
> >Question 1: how does one perform a search on Pure:Dyne/Xfce? I haven't
> >discovered a search facility for Xfce so far. SearchMonkey works well but
> >crashes frequently and one can't open a folder within it (it doesn't like
> >spaces in folder names). What's your recommendation for a Search utility
> >anyways?
>
> I'm not sure about Xfce integrated searching, because personally I
> use the command-line 'find' in a terminal, eg to search for Ogg
> Videos something like 'find /media/external-drive -iname "*.ogv"';
> if you have a permanent install on an always-on machine then
> 'locate' can be much faster (it indexes the drives at about 5am
> every day by default) but it is less flexible ('find' supports many
> ways of filtering the results, for example files larger than a
> certain size created before a certain date, 'locate' is based on
> file/path names only).
>
> Check their manual pages for full gory details: 'man find', 'man locate'
>
> They both handle spaces in names, but you have to be careful if you
> pipe the output into other programs like 'xargs' for example: the
> '-print0' flag to 'find' and the '-0' flag to 'xargs' will prevent
> strange issues.
I think we should provide either beagle or tracker in the DVD ISO, I
know quite a few people that are using those new mega searching tools.
I'm still happy with using only find, but I can see a point in having a
good search engine for desktop users.
Is anyone familiar with any of these projects, which one would you
recommend?
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