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Everything[0], instant NTFS file search on Windows. The thing keeping me from using Linux on my main home PC. [0] https://www.voidtools.com/ https://www.voidto
by sprucevoid 5y ago
Everything[0], instant NTFS file search on Windows. The thing keeping me from using Linux on my main home PC.
[0] https://www.voidtools.com/ https://www.voidtools.com/
- branon 5y agoThat's the only thing? `find / -iname "hello"` doesn't do it for ya?
- iso1631 5y agoNo, find is slow. Locate, sure.
- sprucevoid 5y agoBoth speed and GUI matters (to me). ANGRYsearch and FSearch come closest on Linux, but they're still far off and the upcoming Everything 1.5 (in alpha) widens the gap.
- wander_homer 5y agoAuthor of FSearch here, is there anything in particular you're missing? But yes, there's a huge gap and it's probably never going away. There are many reasons for that. For one, Everything has been in development for quite some time now, and some things just can't be done on Linux. For example there's no MFT on Linux we could parse to quickly get a list of all files or an USN journal to keep track of modified files, hence building and maintaining the database will always be slower.
- sprucevoid 5y agoNot only, but single biggest. find won't do, but I'd be happy if either ANGRYsearch or FSearch one day reached feature parity with Everything.
- Datagenerator 5y agoSeen the locate command in Linux?