Re: Virtual Folders

2006-03-17 Thread Grant Thomas
> 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

Re: Virtual Folders

2006-02-23 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:36:51PM -0600, Grant Thomas wrote: > Is there anything around like the virtual folders in the MS Vista beta, or > like Spotlight in OS X? > Incase anyone is not familar with the term virtual folder: > A virtual folder is basically a realtime folder view of sa

Re: Virtual Folders

2006-02-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:04:08 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:36:51PM -0600, Grant Thomas wrote: > > Is there anything around like the virtual folders in the MS Vista beta, or > > like Spotlight in OS X? > > Incase anyone is not familar with th

Re: Virtual Folders

2006-02-21 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:36:51PM -0600, Grant Thomas wrote: > Is there anything around like the virtual folders in the MS Vista beta, or > like Spotlight in OS X? > Incase anyone is not familar with the term virtual folder: > A virtual folder is basically a realtime folder view of sa

Virtual Folders

2006-02-21 Thread Grant Thomas
Is there anything around like the virtual folders in the MS Vista beta, or like Spotlight in OS X?Incase anyone is not familar with the term virtual folder:A virtual folder is basically a realtime folder view of saved searches. The folder looks through the entire index, and logically groups files