Yes you can use regular expressions http://www.linuxpcug.org/lessons/rute/node8.html
As for advanced searches I am sure you could combine slocate ,awk and grep together to do advanced stuff, but you would have to spend ages composing the command. (well I would) I am surprised no one seems have to made use of slocate in a GUI based file search tool, but AFAIK there is not one. (Please correct me if I am wrong) derek On Wednesday 28 May 2003 12:49 am, rikona wrote: > Hello Derek, > > Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 4:14:52 PM, you wrote: > >> Is there a comparable tool for Mandrake? > > DJ> Install the slocate package and then in a root terminal type > DJ> 'updatedb' It will index every file on your computer and you can > DJ> perform a quick search with the command 'slocate string' > > I just tried this - works OK, and is fast, but gives me too much. Is > there a way to use more complex search expressions (or regex?) to nail > down exactly what I'm after? In my indices, there are sometimes more > than 100,000 references to a single word(and, yes, I do exclude > commonly used words). I need to combine, say, three words (each with > perhaps 50,000 occurrences) to get just the 4-5 files in which they > occur as specified. Is there a way to do that, perhaps by combining > tools? Would it be a mess to think of manipulating the dbase to do > this if no tool is available? > > When the final list of files is found, is there a way to easily and > quickly see them without necessarily opening them, again perhaps with > another tool.? > > I'm REALLY addicted to this kind of tool. :-) > > DJ> The database will update itself weekly, but first you must install the > DJ> 'anacron' package. > > Nice! I like this. I'm always amazed what is in Linux. -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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