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- pdfgrep : grep search pdfs - htop : A nicer version of the process viewer top - rename : bulk rename things via a regex/sed-like interface - youtube-dl -x
by nanna 8y ago
- pdfgrep : grep search pdfs
- htop : A nicer version of the process viewer top
- rename : bulk rename things via a regex/sed-like interface
- youtube-dl -x : download the audio of a video
- locate : Find something anywhere.
- paol 8y agoSecond the usefulness of rename, but beware there is some confusion about the name of the tool. It's called 'rename' on debian and derivatives and 'prename' on RH and derivatives.
- amelius 8y ago> locate : Find something anywhere. I strongly dislike updatedb, which is always stealing CPU cycles at inconvenient moments, and locate often seems out of date. We should have had instant, database-like indexing in our filesystems ages ago.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- _arvin 8y agoYou can run updatedb more frequently. By default it is run on a daily cron job and has the smarts to not run when on battery. (see /etc/cron.daily/mlocate) You can also exclude directories in /etc/updatedb.conf that you don't want locate to index. I think in your case a more frequent cron job make sense. If run often enough, it finishes very quickly when running updatedb, which will you give you the instant search you're looking for.