Desktop Search?

[Sebastian Stein]

Hi,

for Windows there are many Desktop search engines available. I'm not sure if
something similar exists for Linux. Of course, if I just want to search in text
files, I can use tools like grep and stuff. But I also have a lot of PDFs I
want to search in. Is there anything I can use for this purpose?

Sebastian
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[Andreas Freytag]

Am Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:14:03 +0200 schrieb Sebastian Stein:

> Hi,
>
> for Windows there are many Desktop search engines available. I'm not
> sure if something similar exists for Linux. Of course, if I just want to
> search in text files, I can use tools like grep and stuff. But I also
> have a lot of PDFs I want to search in. Is there anything I can use for
> this purpose?
>
> Sebastian

Try beagle. Should be in standard ubuntu sources. It is graphical, you
shold read on the project page for some info how to make it a bit faster
(it is not that slow but can be faster)

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[Sebastian Stein]

Andreas Freytag <andreas_ffreytag@web.de> wrote:

>> for Windows there are many Desktop search engines available. I'm not
>> sure if something similar exists for Linux. Of course, if I just want to
>> search in text files, I can use tools like grep and stuff. But I also
>> have a lot of PDFs I want to search in. Is there anything I can use for
>> this purpose?
>>
>> Sebastian

>
> Try beagle. Should be in standard ubuntu sources. It is graphical, you
> shold read on the project page for some info how to make it a bit faster
> (it is not that slow but can be faster)

Mmmh, I tested this now but there are some problems. One is that if I receive a
new mail, mutt does not recognise anymore this new mail, because beagle
accesses the file first. Maybe this is fixed in a later version. I guess I will
try again with the next Ubuntu release, maybe also a newer version of beagle is
provided.

Any other ideas for Desktop search?

Sebastian

[Florian Diesch]

Sebastian Stein <seb_stein@gmx.de> wrote:

> for Windows there are many Desktop search engines available. I'm not sure if
> something similar exists for Linux. Of course, if I just want to search in text
> files, I can use tools like grep and stuff. But I also have a lot of PDFs I
> want to search in. Is there anything I can use for this purpose?

apt-cache search full text search desktop
finds doodle and kat

apt-cache search full text search
finds some more, offen web based (so you need a local apache)



Florian
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[Sebastian Stein]

Florian Diesch <diesch@spamfence.net> wrote:

>> for Windows there are many Desktop search engines available. I'm not sure if
>> something similar exists for Linux. Of course, if I just want to search in text
>> files, I can use tools like grep and stuff. But I also have a lot of PDFs I
>> want to search in. Is there anything I can use for this purpose?

>
> apt-cache search full text search desktop
> finds doodle and kat

Kat looks promising, but it doesn't seem to be very stable in the current
version.

Sebastian

[Wayne]

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:31:27 +0200, Sebastian Stein wrote:

>>> for Windows there are many Desktop search engines available. I'm not
>>> sure if something similar exists for Linux. Of course, if I just want
>>> to search in text files, I can use tools like grep and stuff. But I
>>> also have a lot of PDFs I want to search in. Is there anything I can
>>> use for this purpose?

>>
>> apt-cache search full text search desktop finds doodle and kat

>
> Kat looks promising, but it doesn't seem to be very stable in the current
> version.

Yeah, it was installed with Mandriva 2006. Most, if not all users had
to uninstall it as it caused KDE to be unstable.

Wayne
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