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It offers autocomplete for logical operators, search operators, field names and even for values (where there is a limited amount of data available to select). And it offers enough power for nearly all queries I could think of so far.
(In contrast to SQL there are no subselects or explicit joins, but there are plugins that make subselects available).
If you means something that searches for files within any directory, I think the best so far I've used was Everything ( https://www.voidtools.com/ ). Lightweight, fast, and really simple UI. I'm still looking for a Linux equivalent (I'm currently using a shell wrapper for `ag --depth 0 -g `.)
> I'm still looking for a Linux equivalent You mean `locate`? Package name in Debian is mlocate. I don't know ag and it's not a package in Debian. That said, I agree that Everything is a must-have on Windows. I don't understand how Microsoft's own search engine is so incredibly crappy (and has been since, what, Windows 95?) while Everything is a 200KB binary that does it perfectly.
Fair enough, it's been discussed here previously.
> and it's not a package in Debian.
It most certainly is:
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=silversearcher-a...
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> I'm still looking for a Linux equivalent You mean `locate`? Package name in Debian is mlocate. I don't know ag and it's not a package in Debian. That said, I agree that Everything is a must-have on Windows. I don't understand how Microsoft's own search engine is so incredibly crappy (and has been since, what, Windows 95?) while Everything is a 200KB binary that does it perfectly.
> I don't know ag Fair enough, it's been discussed here previously. > and it's not a package in Debian. It most certainly is: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=silversearcher-a... Upstream: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
It, referring to "ag", most certainly isn't. Under another name perhaps, but with an amazing name such as "ag", `apt-cache search ag` gives 38000+ results.
> Fair enough, it's been discussed here previously.
I suppose either my memory isn't infallible or I did not refresh HN often enough that day.
Anyhow that's not what I was remarking on. I was giving an alternative program to use on GNU/Linux systems with similar functionality to Voidtools' Everything. But nobody seems to notice that.
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> I don't know ag and it's not a package in Debian. You're in for a treat then: the package name is "silversearcher-ag". Next time you want to grep a directory of files: instead of grepping it, pause, remember this comment, install it and then do "ag " instead. It's quite a bit faster. Well, lots faster.
faster still: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
Have a look at https://www.pexels.com/ . I think the UX is great to find photos.
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> I don't know ag Fair enough, it's been discussed here previously. > and it's not a package in Debian. It most certainly is: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=silversearcher-a... Upstream: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
> It most certainly is: It, referring to "ag", most certainly isn't. Under another name perhaps, but with an amazing name such as "ag", `apt-cache search ag` gives 38000+ results. > Fair enough, it's been discussed here previously. I suppose either my memory isn't infallible or I did not refresh HN often enough that day. Anyhow that's not what I was remarking on. I was giving an alternative program to use on GNU/Linu…
As for the package, you might want to try "apt-file":
sudo apt install apt-file
apt-file update
apt-file find bin/ag
apt-file find /etc/alternatives/mail
It would appear mlocate is most like everything, in that it only index on name/path, not contents.
Of the few I found only "tracker" seemed to be around:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker
Other than unity's "dash" that is:
https://help.ubuntu.com/16.10/ubuntu-help/unity-dash-files.h...
Finally, there's "recoll":
We built a SQL query tool for the filesystem (macOS) last year, and will be launching for Windows in the next two weeks. Finding files is pretty straight forward using the LIKE operator against text in the filename, path or file contents. And the set-based logic of SQL works very well for identifying sets of files to work with: we have an exec() command that lets you run commands on file paths returned in query resul…
google ... before it became frustrating to be under total surveillance.
I'm reminded of the (not surprisingly) defunct Google Desktop and how it would build an index of your file system and let you search it "fuzzily" like you can with Google Search.
We built a SQL query tool for the filesystem (macOS) last year, and will be launching for Windows in the next two weeks. Finding files is pretty straight forward using the LIKE operator against text in the filename, path or file contents. And the set-based logic of SQL works very well for identifying sets of files to work with: we have an exec() command that lets you run commands on file paths returned in query resul…
Were you inspired by Microsoft Log Parser?