Thu, 28 Apr 2005, by fmiller@lightlink.com:
On Thursday 28 April 2005 1:00 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
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I desperately need this. I've collected hundreds upon hundreds of technical papers and research reports and I can no longer find the ones I need at any given time with any reliability or ease.
Use "locate." It's a unix utility and ships with SUSE. It's INSTANTLY available. You build a db first as root using "updatedb" and from then on, it becomes a cron job. Beagle is nice, but locate being instant gives me info. "like now."
Locate doesn't make an index of file contents, which is what you need when you wish to search for a specific document. A decent document management tool would be e Good Thing(tm) to have. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.8 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply.