Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)

[Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com>]

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 18:26 -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> 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 
> 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.


The find can only be used when the file are txt files and not
pdf/OOo/Excel etc

Unfortunately.

I've only used it like 2-5 times thus far..

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