2012/3/16, Robert Moskowitz <r...@htt-consult.com>: > I have two very large directories. > > One an rsync of all the RFCs and that is up to 6456 files. But all the > Internet Drafts (including all expired ones) is 72,509 files. Then I > have a number of large directories with IEEE 802 documents, but rarely > over 3,000 per WG/year (eg ..../802.15/11/ for .15 document numbers > assigned in 2011). > > So anyway, Nautilus takes forever to list these directories and at times > I just want to look for a particular file by string in the name. Is > there a fast graphic tool for this? Then when I find the desired file, > I typically open it in Firefox. >
I don't know how fast it is on such big directories, but you could try emacs dired. Once you have the directory listed, searching (normal or incremental and/or regexp search) will be blazingly fast. And perhaps view the files from within emacs with w3m (although I'm pretty sure that Firefox can be arranged). Andras -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
