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What are the best desktop search tools for Linux?
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Near instant file name matching
locate updates its database usually daily and from there it can retrieve matching file names almost instantly.
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Cannot search inside files' content
Locate only search by file name and has no knowledge of their content. Yet it can be mixed together with tools like xargs and grep to look inside content of possibly relevant files quickly.
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Installed by default on most distributions
The "locate" command is probably already installed and setup on your Linux. Just run it.
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Regexp option
Uses the extended POSIX regex.
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Text & code oriented
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Finds text inside zip files
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Flawed search
Two term search fails to find documents that contain the second term that are found by searching for the first of those terms.
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Theming is all but non-existent.
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Python language integration
Python extension for Python 2 and Python 3.
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Does not index all document types natively
Since it does not index all file types natively, it may need extensions and plugins to be able to find them.
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ReverentAbassi's Experience
It might not be the prettiest, but it's certainly very fast and highly configurable and extremely user friendly.
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Repositories and packaged binaries available
Can be easily installed through official repositories for popular distros, or alternatively it can also be built from source.
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Free and installed by default on most distros
Available out of the box on most linux distributions
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No indexing and slow content search
Needs to be extended with commands like grep and becomes slow for large files or large numbers of files
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Cross-platform
DocFetcher is available for both Windows and Linux operating systems, making it a valuable portable tool for people who use both operating systems.
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Indexes only documents
DocFetcher only indexes documents, with pictures, videos, audio files etc... being omitted.
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UI functionality is limited
There are very few user interfaces available for tracker.
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Can be found in official repos for many distros
Tracker is easily available in official repositories for several popular distros.
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