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[smokey01]

Updated locator-1.0 to 1.1 which includes a progress bar.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=830933#830933

[musher0]

[musher0]

Hello!

Another version on the way: it will look like this:



I decided not to use a GUI to pluck and run a line from the slocate search
list, but, as disciple suggested on another thread, "educate" the user
instead. So this version has a little panel that explains how to pluck and
run a file from the slocate listing.

Linux's CLI copy and paste management is actually top notch, it's just a
matter of learning to use it -- and that's really easy once you've thrown
your prejudices against CLI out the window.

As you can see in the above capture, plucking and running a song works
just fine using the CLI copy and paste gesture and the rox mime-types.

Top to bottom and left to right: the little how-to, the listing, the launching
console and aqualung playing the song.

I might try to add a "select partition" question if the user remembers less
than more on which drive a file is located, to speed up the search. I'll
check if it can be done.

So please be patient: new pet in construction, I'll likely upload it on Easter
Day? Thanks. (And remove/edit this paragraph.)

Almost forgot: thanks to stemsee for new ideas and incentive.

BFN.

musher0

[musher0]

Hi, folks!

This in answer to a question by Puppus Dogfellow here.

I had answered Puppus D. with a total "nope", but since then I've
discovered that there's a way to mish-mash slocate so the "nope" isn't so
total anymore. There is a way to extract a partial text output from one
slocate db's for a particular term or expression.

I did try to obtain a global extraction of a particular term on all slocate
db's on all partitions, but it doesn't seem to work. Maybe it's because the
db's change during such a global search.

In any case, here it goes; it's still in draft format.

[Puppus Dogfellow]

[Dry Falls]

[musher0]

Hello.

Please find attached version 2b. As announced above, it includes a
how-to and a small console to launch your lines from.

I've been testing it for awhile, and it seems to work very well on my
LibrePup-6.0.2.1. The version of Puppy should not matter, though,
because the utilities that this slocate wrapper script relies on exist on
all Puppies that I know.

I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to copy & paste from the big
slocate report console to the smallish command console.

With consoles, you don't have to do Ctrl-C in one and Ctrl-V in the other.
You highlight the text you need in one console, you go to other console
and you middle-click. That's it!

This works because rox can launch any file type in its MIME list.

As the attached screen capture shows, it's a breeze to start a file from
any partition with the console copy & paste.

Constructive comments and user reports welcome. Thanks in advance.

Enjoy!

musher0

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Additional notes:
-- When you hilite a line in the slocate report console, stop before the dot.
-- By comparison with the previous versions, this version 2b requires
__ wmctrl-1.0.7 as a dependency. (Attached.)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[musher0]

Someone asked by PM if slocate was still being used in this version.

Answer: yes, it is. slocate is still the motor around which this wrapper is
wrapping itself. (Sorry for the bad pun!)

The presence of slocate is perhaps less obvious because in this version
I focused on the ease of use: how-to, launch console, the wide report
window. But the efficient and wonderful slocate utility is still behind it all.

BFN.

musher0

[musher0]

Hello again, people!

Here is version 02c already.

This one lets you stay in the search panel as long as you like, doing
as many searches as you like! Long live "while...do...done"!

In the previous versions, you had to start or restart the wrapper every
time you wanted to do a search.

I won't bother you with screen captures for this one. The only difference,
visually, for the user, is a new sentence at the bottom, when you have
finished a search, explaining which key to type to quit or search again.

Also the need for wmctrl as a dependency is gone in this version: we
don't need it any more. Just the need for (the real) less remains.

Really enjoy!

BFN.

musher0

[Puppus Dogfellow]

working well in Quirky 7.2 64 bit, musher0.

i needed to use the slocate package below:

slocate-2.7-7.x86_64.rpm

[gcmartin]

Could someone submit its PET to GIT? And this utility as well.

I don't envision any PUP GIT member having any problem with slocate command or this utility which uses it. This command should be WOOFCE into every system as it presents no hardship in its presence.

[Pelo]

Alors, ce test bench ,

[Pelo]

don't forget to test , senor Pelo, one more time !
Bookmarked again, for a second chance