From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2018-11-30, Batchman  wrote:   
   > On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:58:27 +0000, William Unruh wrote:   
   >   
   >> Why not cli? There is locate. Fast, efficient, and a lot easier than   
   >> wading through some gui.   
   >   
   > OK, you (and Carlos) have sold it to me!   
   > I'll TRY to be better behaved from now on ;)   
      
   When asking a question, it is best if you outline why you  ask as well   
   as asking. For example, you have never said if you had already tried   
   locate already and did not like it for one reason or another. Or if you   
   had searched on the web and seen some programs you were considering and   
   wanted advice on the strengths and weaknesses. Ie, the more information   
   you give us, the better the advice will be. If all you want is to search   
   of parts of names, locate works well. If you want a much more powerful   
   search tool. or just want to search certain directories   
   then there is "find" which has huge power, but also has a command syntax   
   which can be rather intimidating. It can also be slower since it   
   actually searches the directory now, rather than use a presearched   
   database. There is the balloo stuff, which I never touch but it does   
   keep a HUGE presearch database which it uses. I have never figured out   
   how to use it, but someone must find it usefull to make up for its   
   taking some substatial fraction of your disk space.   
      
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