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On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 18:26 -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 12:50 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> > How often do people here actually -use- beagle? |
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> > I removed it after finding I never really used it, and that the |
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> > default short cut for it and the memory usage it required to do little |
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> > more than a 'find -print0 blah | xargs -0 -iARG grep "string" ARG ' |
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> > quite frankly disgusting |
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> A 'find ... |grep' would take a looong time to run just on my home |
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> directory. A good solution would be a tool that actually indexes files |
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> in the background, and perhaps automatically when a file is |
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> changed/added/removed. And not just text in files but also other kinds |
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> of metadata. And when I click that file/data/whatever it would be cool |
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> if it automagically opened the appropriate viewer and took me to the |
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> exact location of what I am searching for. Pretty much a one-stop shop |
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> for searching my stuff. |
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The find can only be used when the file are txt files and not |
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pdf/OOo/Excel etc |
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Unfortunately. |
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I've only used it like 2-5 times thus far.. |
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