When comparing Recoll vs GNU findutils, the Slant community recommends Recoll for most people. In the question“What are the best desktop search tools for Linux?” Recoll is ranked 3rd while GNU findutils is ranked 4th.
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Pros
Pro Finds text inside zip files
Pro Python language integration
Python extension for Python 2 and Python 3.
Pro Repositories and packaged binaries available
Can be easily installed through official repositories for popular distros, or alternatively it can also be built from source.
Pro Free and installed by default on most distros
Available out of the box on most linux distributions
Cons
Con 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.
Con 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.
Con 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