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There is an outstanding program for simple searchs that aragon uploaded called Mlocate. Thanks aragon and vovchik.

This is a very nice, compact program which produces a small indexed database of all files on your system and is lightning fast. You just enter a search term and bang! it shows all the hits.

For me, the drawback is that I don't necessarily just want to know what files are there and where they are - I'd also like to take some further action on the files found.

To that end, I've created LocnRox.

LocnRox is a Gtkdialog interface that quickly -

1) Pops up a highlighted search box.

2) You key in the search term and hit enter.

The bottom part of the dialog then instantly shows all the found files.

Double-click on any found file and Rox will open in that directory. Now, you can DO SOMETHING with your "found" files - copy,move,delete,symlink,run,edit.. whatever.

The LocnRox pet contains the Mlocate program (Locate), the file "00-update-mlocatedb" in the /Startup directory which runs the updatedb command at boot, so that the index is always up to date.

LocnRox is under Menu > Filesystem and after you install the pet, be sure to press the "update database" button before using the first time (after that it will update at every boot, or you can update anytime that you've added additional drives or files during a session..

Restart JWM, and it should be in the menu system.


(What would really be great is to have this integrated into the Pfind program, for even greater capabilities......)

[vovchik]

Dear seaside,

I like your file find utility very much. I think I made it a little prettier, added slocate to the mix, a help screen and little C file I wrote some time back to show an animated gif while slocate is doing its work. Please have a look and tell me what you think. It should be unpacked into /usr/local. It could start with a little bash script that does a cd to the pfilefind dir and then launches the real prog.

I have added two screenshots.

With kind regards,
vovchik

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vovchik,

Thanks very much.

That looks much better with help and an update of the database buttons.

I will download it and take a look.

Regards,
s

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vovchik,

Very nicely done and some additional changes are needed to make it work -

**setup**

Add command "addgroup slocate"

Create directory "/var/lib/slocate"

Add file "/etc/updatedb.conf" (default config file)

Change --

[vovchik]

Dear seaside,

Do you want to make the changes or shall I? I have been using slocate forever, so I didn't remember the installation steps. And it was in my path, so I got no errors. Oops! Sorry about that.

As for the puppy gif, how about some of the ones below?

With kind regards,
vovchik

PS. If you make the changes, you could post a new pet. I have never created one.

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vovchik,

My inclination is to favor Mlocate as it seems to have more speed and efficiency over Slocate see -

http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/blog/mlocate/

Those attached Puppies are all so good, it's very hard to pick one. Although my wife likes the last one the best.

I could repackage the LocnRox pet with Mlocate and your enhancements or you could make a pet with Slocate -

Making a pet is really the same as a Tar.

Open terminal at level of DIRNAME

dir2pet DIRNAME - mostly hit enter for a couple of questions and it makes a pet.

Regards,
s

[vovchik]

Dear seaside,

You might be right about mlocate being faster - although it has been a long time since I compared and I now have a 1.5 TB disk with 12 partitions and had 100 GB before, so circumstances have changed. Why don't you go ahead and package the mlocate version? Just for your info, I also like the last pup in that gif series. Incidentally, the reason I wrote that little gif launcher is that gtkdialog is notoriously hard to kill and may lead to undesirable consequences if another gtkdialog prog is loaded. It's a cheap kluge but works as expected. Otherwise, gtkdialog, via gdk-pixbuf, displays animated gifs nicely (but you probably know that):

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[vovchik]

Dear seaside,

Very nice. I do need the screen gif because mlocate indexing on my machine took a good 7 minutes. It produced a file of 23 mb, whereas the slocate db is 13 mb. Incidentally, mlocate does not recognize wildcards in the way that slocate does (e.g. /icons*glass*png), so there are plusses and minuses with each of them.

With kind regards,
vovchik

[Keef]

Evening All,

Tried this in 214X14.1, but nothing appears. Below is what is running according to htop, the first using 100% CPU:

[Bert]

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[Keef]

Seaside,

Just tried your suggestion, but no change - exactly same result as before (get the Tinylogin output again after running "addgroup mlocate")
I've only tried the most current version.
I'll try it on some other pups just for comparison (3.01, 301X and slaxer)

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Keef,

Here's the first version pet.

See if that works