Doodle: find information on your computer - Iceweasel. About Doodle is a tool to quickly search the documents on a computer.
Doodle builds an index using meta-data contained in the documents and allows fast searches on the resulting database. Doodle uses libextractor to support obtaining meta-data from various file-formats. The database used by doodle is a suffix tree, resulting in fast lookups. Doodle supports approximate searches. Doodle is licensed under the GNU GPL. Download You can find the current release here. . $ svn checkout If you want to be notified about updates, subscribe to doodle on freshmeat Debian packages provided by Daniel Baumann can be found here. Using doodle First the doodle database needs to be created. . $ doodle -b This will create the doodle database under ~/.doodle. . $ doodle keyword Keeping the database up-to-date $ doodled You can also use doodled to construct the initial database. . $ doodle -b / $ doodled This way, your entire system will be in the index, and your home directory will be always up-to-date.
Full-text search. Desktop Search Engines Compared. I have a large electronic library (over 15,000 books) and I was looking for a way to cope with this mass of information.
I didn't like the idea of a special catalog, since it would take a lot of manual work to enter the metadata. Besides, my books are in various formats, from HTML, to RTF, to DOC, to PDF, to DjVU. These files lack metadata way too often and I thought a local indexing service with a full-text search might solve my problem. I knew there are more options to choose from than just Google, but I could not find a good modern comparison. Even the table in Wikinfo's Comparison of desktop search software contained too many errors, as I discovered.
I had to compare them myself. My task imposed certain restrictions on the one hand, but made the others irrelevant on the other hand. I have no special preferences regarding the backend, it may be Xapian- or Lucene-based tool, or even a custom backend. Beagle Beagle understands limited (very limited, actually) regexps (*). Recoll Strigi. The best Linux desktop search tools. Tools such as grep, find and awk have often come to the rescue of gleeful Bash-mongers searching for files buried beneath gigabytes of other items.
But when a typical Linux distro takes up a couple of gigs of disk space, it's not hard to imagine that finding your files will only become trickier over time. Compared with their internet brethren, today's desktop search tools can be used not only to look for the names of files on your disk, but can also perform context-sensitive searches within email archives, images, videos and music. Some tools take it a bit further and even index your browser history and bookmarks. But with so many different tools to choose from, often offering the same or similar features, just which are worth trying? We picked out the best desktop search tools for Linux and put them through their paces - read on to find out how they fared!
(PS: if you much prefer working on the command line, don't miss our how to find files on the Linux command line tutorial!) Beagle.