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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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Some people may actually get more use out of it. For example I use it |
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several times a day. I agree totally that it's far from perfect, but so |
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far the best solution I've tried. |
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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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Btw, I did a search for "string" in Beagle and it only took a few |
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seconds to return some intelligent results. A similar 'find ... |grep' |
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is still running after 17 minutes and is consuming a good amount of CPU |
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in the process. |
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