Is Beagle a Good Thing?

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Sat Dec 1 10:30:30 UTC 2007


> 
> But then you can use "find".  I use it all the time with hundreds 
> (thousands?) of files in multiple directories with even more sub 
> directories.

find only searches the file names - These desktop search tools do much 
more than this - They search *inside* the files. They know how read most 
of the common file formats (including images, searching the EXIM 
comments and music files) and will match your search to any file which 
matches.

No use of find, or careful organisation of your file system can do this.

Chris




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