On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 10:28:27PM +0000, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 09/01/12 20:33, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
On 9 January 2012 17:34, Chris Greencl@isbd.net wrote:
I guess I'm going to write a custom script round locate that makes it produce results much like find, but quickly. I'm just wondering if someone happens to have done it for me already.
I wonder what happened to the Beagle-Project.... wouldn't that be exactly what you want?
Regards, Srdjan
Isn't Zeitgeist a replacement for Beagle in Gnome and Ubuntu?
http://gnomejournal.org/article/70/an-introduction-to-gnome-zeitgeist
I dunno how easily you can interrogate the database though.
As I understand it (having looked at the web page) Zeitgeist just records what you have done and lets you find things related to that. Since I do a lot remotely via ssh connections I doubt very much if that would even get noticed.
I just want an efficient file/directory finder, like find but faster.
I don't now if it's any better, but I think you can use find rather than locate, but I've not really tried either.
Yes, find works as I want, but is painfully slow if you're searching a big filesystem. E.g. it's usable for searching, say, the whole of /home/chris but begins to get too slow for /home.