Re:An intro to finding things in Linux
by alex_smart on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @09:19AM
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Recoll is also worth a shout-out.
Re:An intro to finding things in Linux
by nitrogen on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @02:10PM
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My speedy system tanks when Baloo (and fstrim) tries to run after booting because everything runs at default priority. They really need to set nice and ionice on those processes by default. Thus locate is what I'll usually end up using.
Re:An intro to finding things in Linux
by archeroed on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:35AM
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I tried Plasma ( with i3 to replave kwin, didn't turned out to be a goo experience btw, back to bare i3) some times ago and directly deactivated this baloofile after seeing it was taking 1.7gb at boot ( maybe it was temporary ). I just use fzf when I don't know where something is.
I find the current Nautilus search to be very powerful, especially in searching inside texts & PDFs. It certainly does a far better job than Mac Spotlight or Windows Search. Under the hood, I am pretty certain it runs an extended command with regexes
These search engines are very powerful because they do deep file scanning, are based on mature frameworks such as Apache Lucene.
For KDE, this was called Nepomuk https://userbase.kde.org/Nepomuk and is nowadays called Baloo https://community.kde.org/Baloo, and can be used in fact from the command line (baloosearch)
For GNOME, this is (apparently, not using GNOME in the last years) called Tracker https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker