> This might totally be what you have not in mind, but something like this > will take a search and put all matches as a link into a directory: > > mkdir ~/tmp/virtual_ooffice; for b in `locate /home/*\.sxw`; > do cp -l $b tmp/virtual_ooffice/; done > > This one-liner can be enhanced/changed to all your whishes, basically > any file matching program can replace the locate in backticks. > Also some quotes would be needed for escaping weirdly named files. > And finally you might want to build a little shell script that takes > output dir and search pattern as arguments. > > But I guess you are looking for something graphical... >
Thanks for the info. I will give it a shot and hopefully it will do what I'm looking for. I'm not not looking specifically for something graphical, Apple and Vista are the only two examples that I had to go off of.
