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I miss Search Everything on linux. Nothing beats real-time indexing of the filesystem without overhead.


You could setup something almost like it. mlocate is the defacto indexed filename search for linux, and the update script skips directories that haven't been updated - so an update call is quite cheap. You could run it every 15m, and have 'almost' uptodate indexed search.

Most systems should have it setup to run daily out of the box.


There are also more sophisticated desktop search tools like Recoll, of course.




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