Look at a PDF file once, there's so much extraneous formatting information interleaved with the text that only rarely would grep or other textual search find what you're looking for. The same goes for PostScript, Word and almost any word-processing or document distribution format.
There are alternatives to Beagle, but I'm not sure they're any more "ready for prime-time" than Beagle is.
Yeah, I agree.
Plus locate is - gulp - command line and you need a college degree to understand the regex operations in grep.
I personally euthanized the darn dog on all my machines and use a logical folder structure to find things.
Over the years, people have managed to keep their files together. UNIX: ~, as always. DOS: Dedicated folder on C:, or another drive. Win 4.x-6.x: My Documents. Why would we suddenly need search engines. People unable to label their files properly (putting them into the right-named directory as a bonus) are a lost case like their files. -`J' -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org