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Catfish Search Tool Updated with New Features

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http://www.ubuntuvibes.com – Catfish is a handy file searching utility for Linux, featuring a graphical frontend for different search tools. The interface is lightweight and you can configure it to your needs by using advanced options. Catfish has been updated to version 0.4.0. It features a revamped interface based on GTK+3. Searches are now powered by locate and all the activity is done behind the scenes, with auto completion from Zeitgeist and locate. The advanced options now allow filtering by date and file type. Download Catfish 0.4.0 Installing Catfish is very easy in Ubuntu 12.04. J (HowTos)

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Submitted by Tasshin on 08/22/2012

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catfish 3 years 20 weeks ago

Thanks to Arslan S. for:[code]Title:          catfish.tczDescription:    Catfish is a versatile file searching tool.Version:        0.3.2Author:         Christian Dywan

I think I have had enough of the useless Catfish. If there a search tool that will actually let me do file commands within it. For example, a program where I could copy/paste/delete search results? I can't do anything with the results in Catfish but memorize them and search for them one by one in Thunar.

or without a catfish, work in progress, requires locate;guilocate#!/bin/bash somestring="$(zenity --entry --text="" --title search --width=350)" && locate $somestring | zenity --text-info --width=650 --height=600I would prefer to send a filelist back to thunar if possible?

What's the best way to search my file system on ubuntu and get results almost instantly? I have used catfish , tracker and the usual search tool provided with ubuntu.

Tracker finds nothing, ubuntu search tool is too slow and catfish most of the time finds nothing. I have a lot of PDFs and DJVU files that I want to access.

Search within thunar 35 weeks 2 days ago

In the get_find_options() in the catfish source, try replace one of the empty strings next to locate with '-b'.

ConnorBehan https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=11600

2012-09-19T23:43:08Z

My server is chugging along with a 5GB drive, and unfortunately, it's 100% full. Going to delete some files, I notice that my Dropbox's taking up way more than it should.

{Suggestion} Thunar 1.6 20 weeks 3 days ago

Brianrh wrote:I don't suppose Thunar 1.6 has a proper serch function?I know you can use Catfish and even integrate it into Thunar, but when you have the results of your seach you can't do anything with them i.e. delete, move, etc, .I think nautilus has an integrated search feature like that (but /me always end up working in combinations of file managers and terminal - same on osx).

https://launchpad.net/activity-log-manager

I found a spec file for the old 0.8 version of the zeitgeist activity-log-manager in bugzilla.

Is there any tool similar to Deskbar available for Ubuntu 12.10?

Using Unity, the file lens does the job, but I can't work with Unity, so I have to use another desktop environment (fallback version/xfce).

The workflow that I need is the typical deskbar one, ie., for opening a random file: - using a keyboard shortcut globally available - typing the first letters of the name - having the default f