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Seems if the query is always going to start with SELECT, that maybe it should be assumed? I would never use this though, ack or find seem sufficient to me.
It's a shame Bash used 'select' as an elaborate menu built-in - it'd be quite neat to name the binary that (and drop the quotes). The you could just type the query right into your prompt!
For those of us on Windows: Everything [1] does the job quite nicely with much less verbose syntax. [1] http://voidtools.com
Everything is pretty awesome, one of the things I really miss on Linux. When I last looked for a Linux replacement for it, none had the real time updates or the instant search ui, and even those that claimed to index the file system for a quick search were very slow. I actually ended up writing my own hacky and rudimentary GUI over locate to achieve something that fits my needs (and of course doesn't support real tim…
Also integrated with the KRunner framework.
For those of us on Windows: Everything [1] does the job quite nicely with much less verbose syntax. [1] http://voidtools.com
I've been using this for years and it is LIGHTNING fast. No need to "index" all the files because it reads directly from the MFT. If you create a new file matching the search pattern it's already sitting in the results window by the time you alt-tab. Also, the "directory size" equivalent of Everything is WizTree [1] ... much faster than WinDirStat, which I see recommended way too often. [1] http://antibody-software.c…
For those of us on Windows: Everything [1] does the job quite nicely with much less verbose syntax. [1] http://voidtools.com
filename dm:>=16/05/2017 size:5mb..9mb parents:>=3
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That was my first thought, too. I'd love a file system that was more like a relational database. Also see the Pick operating system.
Transactional ACID updates to file systems would be pretty fantastic.
Does anyone remember WinFS (1)? Bill Gates described it as his biggest product regret (2). I remember I thought it was brilliant. Too bad it was probably a little bit too futuristic for its time, as for a few other things they launched when it just was not the right time... the clunky Tablet PCs (3) were for sure another example. (1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS (2) http://www.zdnet.com/article/bill-gates-bi…
While WinFS was a good start, I think the idea of a semantic file system could be extended much further to the whole system (if it weren't for pesky POSIX) I think most people would expect /home/geokon/program1/src/ and /src/program1/home/geokon to have pretty much the same content A tag based file system that makes the two equivalent would eliminate all sorta of annoyances where you can't decide how to structure you…
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Yeah, I like the idea of using sql but it is painful to write. It would be nice to omit the select and the quoting; my suggestion would be that fsql "select * from ..." could be written as select all from ... and all could be assumed if ommitted; so you could write select from or just from ... But unfortunately `select` is a sh(1) reserved word and `from` is an existing command! (shows who who your mail is from) So m…
> or just > from ... Or just ... Why even bother naming fields. Just make enter return everything from anywhere from all time for all people on all platforms. How many times are we going to have this ridiculous suggestion that less characters/words is automatically better. This is 'short/arrow functions' (pick your language) all over again, and invariably ends up with the situation where the new syntax is just fuckin…
as a fp geek
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I've been using this for years and it is LIGHTNING fast. No need to "index" all the files because it reads directly from the MFT. If you create a new file matching the search pattern it's already sitting in the results window by the time you alt-tab. Also, the "directory size" equivalent of Everything is WizTree [1] ... much faster than WinDirStat, which I see recommended way too often. [1] http://antibody-software.c…
@all, do you guys know if osx / linux have the MFT like structures accessible to the user? Any links?
NTFS stores the name in the MFT instead, which makes hard links a bit weirder.
We have implemented smth. like this with sqlite extension, pretty powerful, with all the goodies sqlite (and its extensions) provides...
Sounds interesting, would love to take a look if it's available anywhere.
Does anyone remember WinFS (1)? Bill Gates described it as his biggest product regret (2). I remember I thought it was brilliant. Too bad it was probably a little bit too futuristic for its time, as for a few other things they launched when it just was not the right time... the clunky Tablet PCs (3) were for sure another example. (1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS (2) http://www.zdnet.com/article/bill-gates-bi…
While WinFS was a good start, I think the idea of a semantic file system could be extended much further to the whole system (if it weren't for pesky POSIX) I think most people would expect /home/geokon/program1/src/ and /src/program1/home/geokon to have pretty much the same content A tag based file system that makes the two equivalent would eliminate all sorta of annoyances where you can't decide how to structure you…
e.g. /home/geokon/program1/src/foo.c
could become: user=geokon/program=program1/category=src/lang=c/name=foo
You could potentially decide that the order of the attributes is not significant, only the set of attribute-value pairs.
Downside: Too much typing. Although, maybe you could allow standard aliases for attribute names, so that:
user=geokon/program=program1/category=src/lang=c/name=foo
could also be written as:
u=geokon/p=program1/c=src/l=c/n=foo
(I think the attributes should be first-class filesystem objects, just like files are, as opposed to just text strings. Some of the values, e.g. an enumerated value like lang=c, should be first-class objects as well.)
I also took some inspiration (in concept not syntax) from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_classification such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon_classification
Being too different from what everyone else is doing would be the real killer, however.