ZipCat for linux

Frank Pineau frank at pineaus.com
Wed Jan 5 15:12:09 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 13:22 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
> > I have used a great program in Windows called Zipcat, it's basically a
> > volume management app.  It catalogs the files of a volume (CD/DVD/HDD)
> > into a database and allows you to search by keyword.  Is there an
> > equivalent in Linux that anyone knows about?  It's the one thing, I've
> > missed since canning Windows altogether.
> 
> Try "man slocate"; that might be what you're looking for.
> 
> Paul.
> 
> 

You might also try Beagle (http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/), which
is a desktop search tool for Gnome, similar to Google Desktop Search and
Copernic.
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