On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 12:50 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: > How often do people here actually -use- beagle? > > I removed it after finding I never really used it, and that the > default short cut for it and the memory usage it required to do little > more than a 'find -print0 blah | xargs -0 -iARG grep "string" ARG ' > quite frankly disgusting
Some people may actually get more use out of it. For example I use it several times a day. I agree totally that it's far from perfect, but so far the best solution I've tried. A 'find ... |grep' would take a looong time to run just on my home directory. A good solution would be a tool that actually indexes files in the background, and perhaps automatically when a file is changed/added/removed. And not just text in files but also other kinds of metadata. And when I click that file/data/whatever it would be cool if it automagically opened the appropriate viewer and took me to the exact location of what I am searching for. Pretty much a one-stop shop for searching my stuff. Btw, I did a search for "string" in Beagle and it only took a few seconds to return some intelligent results. A similar 'find ... |grep' is still running after 17 minutes and is consuming a good amount of CPU in the process. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
