On Sunday 30 August 2009 07:07:11 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > On windows machines, there is "google desktop" which searchs the files > > contents. Mac has "spotlight" which also search the file contents in a > > mac machine. > > > > In linux, I know the command 'locate' which search all the filenames. > > But I am wondering if there is a tool that can search file contents. > > > > I know that the combination of 'find' and 'grep' can search the > > contents, but it is slow. Can somebody let me know if there is a much > > faster solution which might rely on an indexing database? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#Desktop_search_engines > > For some reason, the one that I've been using, recoll, isn't on the > list
Yes, there is and I second recoll. Recollindex can run nice 19 in the background and you do not know it is running. It simply works. There is the original opensource one: Beagle. I have not tried it. Google-desktop was simply too slow, unmanageable and I did not really want there all-inclusive web-interface (though it has its merits). Nepomuk/strigi come with KDE4. Resource hawg par excelence. I wish they had backends for the others, i.e. recoll. Give me a skeleton and I will quickly produce a krunner plugin for recoll. There has already been a wishlist to separate nepomuk from the base kde packages. I second the motion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
