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.
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).
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.
On Windows there a nice file search engine called Everything, which is (unline find) very fast and (unlike locate) always returns up to date results.
When I am at tap the Menu button, the menu pops up and shows four functions: Edit page, Create folder, Search, and Settings. I uninstalled the default Google search engine on my rooted phone, so now the Search function does not do anything when I tap on it.
I want to reassign my default search to Multi Search, an app that inquire multiple search engines at once.
Are there any search engines that are friendly enough to be used in Links?
I don't like to compare any Linux program to Windows, but the indexing in Windows 7 seems to be well integrated with the File Manager
(in Windows 7) when I type anything in the search field,
up come all the files related to that string, whether filenames
or files containing that string
Windows file manager then displays a SNIPPET of the section (similar to grep)
it is fast, and works we
So I want something pretty simple :) App where I put a dir to search, and a string/regexp to search in the file contents recursively in that dir, and it gives a list of results.
I don't want something like 'tracker' that runs in the background and indexes things, I want something that just searches on demand like grep, given a path.
In windows I used grepWin which was pretty perfect for the purp
Whenever I type something in my address bar (other than a url), firefox automatically uses google search to give me results for it.
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