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grep
I am amazed that Google and grep are at the bottom of this thread. I guess they're not cool anymore, but they're two of the best examples of search UX there are.
[0]: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Aug...
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 `.)
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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
google ... before it became frustrating to be under total surveillance.
Google is amazing! However, to be fair, it'd be pretty hard to provide such amazing and accurate results without knowing a lot about you. Granted, I do wish they'd let you control more about what they know about you. 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.
Edited to add: Searched Google for it (how meta). Found this:
https://enterprise.google.com/search/products/gsa.html
and this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance#Retire...
So it may still be available - until 2018.
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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
If we're talking ux it's how people search as well. We've got LATCH for that. Location, alphabet, time, category and hierarchy. On the BBC website people might search for a 'detective' (category), but also might search for 'tomorrow, this week' (time) or 'most viewed' (hierarchy).
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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.
Thanks! I installed it a and aliased grep to 'echo Try ag'.
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Thanks! I installed it a and aliased grep to 'echo Try ag'.
May as well alias grep to ag XD