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    Search for files function

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by ral, Dec 9, 2010.

  1. ral

    ral Notebook Evangelist

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    I noticed that with Ubuntu 10.10 that when I search for files it only reads the file name and not the document itself. With Windows, the search function can read the documents and find the words you a looking for even if they are in the text and not only by looking at the file name. Does Linux have a more powerful search tool.
     
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    I guess the search tool you use is just a GUI frontend for find. What you are looking for is something that uses grep (or grep itself).
     
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    ral Notebook Evangelist

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    That is correct. I am just using the tool on the GUI. Will read up of grep. Thanks.
     
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    ral Notebook Evangelist

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    Okay, just installed Search Monkey... still cannot search the text on documents...
     
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  6. ral

    ral Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks... searched beagle in the Ubuntu Software Center, and it gave me catfish. Installing catfish plus 3 add-ons (doodle, tracker and strigi-deamon) :)
     
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    ral Notebook Evangelist

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    When I installed Catfish, only the "find" search method works. In find the option "Fulltext Search" is grayed out. The other search methods: locate, tracker, doodle and strigi do not seem to work.

    Thanks for all the help.
     
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    Tracker works!
     
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    Just FYI if you didn't want to install all those programs you can do it really easy with grep, here is an example.

    # grep -i kernel `ls /var/log`
    this will search for the word kernel, not case sensitive, in the directory of /var/log, but will not recurse if you want that add the -r option.

    so applied you could always look wherever with simple substitutions

    Say you "lost" a paper for geology
    $grep -ir igneous `ls /home/timmy`

    so on and so forth.
     
    likuidkewl, Dec 9, 2010
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