Comments on: Linux desktop search http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-desktop-search.html This is a Linux sys admin journal by Vivek about sys admin work, Linux tips & tricks, hacks, news and more. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:37:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Koratsukihttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-desktop-search.html#comment-154323 Koratsuki Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:00:59 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-desktop-search.html#comment-154323 @Andrew Stallard: Man, "we" suppose that you have your home folder in another partition not in the same that the filesystem is located, remember /etc/fstab is the file for the mount points in the system. If the package isn´t in your repository try downloading it from another source and install it, them excecute the rest od the procedure. I (since I was in Slackware, now I´am using Debian I dont know if it changes in that time) recommend you to use localte (slocate or rlocate) after updatedb. Could be very useful to you :D @Andrew Stallard:
Man, “we” suppose that you have your home folder in another partition not in the same that the filesystem is located, remember /etc/fstab is the file for the mount points in the system. If the package isn´t in your repository try downloading it from another source and install it, them excecute the rest od the procedure.

I (since I was in Slackware, now I´am using Debian I dont know if it changes in that time) recommend you to use localte (slocate or rlocate) after updatedb. Could be very useful to you :D

]]> By: Andrew Stallardhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-desktop-search.html#comment-154057 Andrew Stallard Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:51:06 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-desktop-search.html#comment-154057 Upon typing "yum install beagle" I got a response that no such package was available. In addition, there is no /home in my /etc/fstab file. Has anybody else had this problem? Upon typing “yum install beagle” I got a response that no such package was available. In addition, there is no /home in my /etc/fstab file. Has anybody else had this problem?

]]> By: Hardcore Linux userhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-desktop-search.html#comment-147614 Hardcore Linux user Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:09:03 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-desktop-search.html#comment-147614 "Sure find command can do all the work (if you are a hardcore Linux user) for you. " Already wrong. "find" does not index file content, not even file names. You need "locate" to index file names. But then you still can't search quickly for content. "grep" searches for content. "desktop search" is to "grep" as "locate" is to "find". “Sure find command can do all the work (if you are a hardcore Linux user) for you. ” Already wrong. “find” does not index file content, not even file names. You need “locate” to index file names. But then you still can’t search quickly for content. “grep” searches for content. “desktop search” is to “grep” as “locate” is to “find”.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-desktop-search.html#comment-19422 Anonymous Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:40:00 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-desktop-search.html#comment-19422 There are other free desktop search tools for unix and linux, for example kat http://kat.mandriva.com/ or recoll http://www.recoll.org There are other free desktop search tools for unix and linux, for example kat http://kat.mandriva.com/
or recoll
http://www.recoll.org

]]> By: whittyhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-desktop-search.html#comment-19421 whitty Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:14:00 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-desktop-search.html#comment-19421 you can also try "locate" for searching files - uses cron triggered indexing and much more efficient than find. you can also try “locate” for searching files – uses cron triggered indexing and much more efficient than find.

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