From: XeCycle <xecycle@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Interesting utilities
References: <j713uv$e6o$1@speranza.aioe.org> <8739et4pxz.fsf@gmail.com> <20111015235136.291@kylheku.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:25:03 +0800
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Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> writes:

> On 2011-10-16, XeCycle <xecycle@gmail.com> wrote:
>> jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> writes:
>>> It is very useful, and I never found something even remotely
>>> equivalent under linux/sun os
>>
>> What about `locate' from GNU Findutils?
>
> Locate searches only file names, not their contents.
>
> That's been a staple of Linux distros as far as I can remember (which cou=
ld
> potentially takes us back as far as 1993).
>
> Long before operating systems "for the rest of them" started getting
> any kind of indexing.

I remembered something else, if you don't mind a GUI that comes along:

Pinot: http://pinot.berlios.de/
Recoll: http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/index.html.en

I have tried Pinot, which does the work well, however I stopped it since
I didn't use it very much, and it takes quite some resources.

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