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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Power searching Linux with SearchMonkey

Power searching Linux with SearchMonkey

There are search tools and then there are SEARCH TOOLS. Any Linux user
that has ever needed real power for their searches generally has to
resort to the command line where they can take advantage of regular
expressions or scripting. But what if you could have a GUI tool that
could also handle regular expressions?

There is such a tool – SearchMonkey. SearchMonkey attempts to bridge the
gap between Beagle and locate/find by adding a powerful regular
expression builder to a GUI searching tool. And SearchMonkey does quite
well at this task.

In this article you will learn how to install SearchMonkey and use its
powerful regular expression builder to power your searches.

Read more...
http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/30/power-searching-linux-with-searchmonkey/

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