Where's the search?

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Where's the search?
started by: l0st

Posted by l0st on Oct. 22 2005,03:45

I came up with a problem yesterday.
I couldn't find a file I wanted. Stupid thing, I thought, I'll just fire up search...

wait.
Where is it?
Can any kind soul point to the right direction? Be it CLI or GUI, or does DSL NOT have any kind of search?

Posted by adssse on Oct. 22 2005,04:49

I am not for sure, but I believe in CLI you can try 'whereis filename' or 'find filename'

Posted by brianw on Oct. 22 2005,19:27

find is a very powerful tool for doing searches (it is the one I use most of the time). There is also a DSL called gtkfind.dsl if you want a gui type search tool.

Posted by doobit on Oct. 23 2005,02:46

grep is great for finding files with certain specific contents and specific contents within files

Posted by l0st on Oct. 23 2005,07:58

Thanks for all the feedback guys, I'm doing fine now.
But while we're on this subject, is there anything that's on par with Google Desktop Search or Beagle? Of course it goes without saying it should be as non-bloated as possible. Thanks again.

Posted by gh78 on Oct. 29 2005,03:52

gtkfind* kinda works.

* in < http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....pps >