Want a File/Manager with fast search ability (like Mac)

[heavyt]

On my mac OS X or OS 9 I'm able to do a search thru my hard drive (20 gigs) for any file(s) and it will only take the file manager about 3 to 8 sec to produce the results. Is there a file manager that can match that performance on the linux side, if so please point me to it, thanks.

[shr1nk]

i use the command line locate...
and do an updatedb every once in a while

it takes less than 1 second to find something

[heavyt]

[shr1nk]

yea, it takes a while for updatedb to finish for me as well
it has to scann all files in your hard drive and to my knowledge puts them in a data base file...

simple and it works

if you use in conjunction with the "grep" command, its even more usefull

say if you were looking for a .txt file, and remembered only that it had the word "shr1nk" in it, you would pipe it with grep like so:

locate *.txt | grep shr1nk

that should locate all files with the extension .txt containing the word "shr1nk" in the filename

[heavyt]

How often do you updatedb? I am reading man for locate and updatedb.

[shr1nk]

whenever i get bored =]

you just reminded me to do it..

or you can put it in a schedular like crontab or osmething to do it like everything couple hours or so, along with emerge sync

[zhenlin]

I believe Gentoo has it at once a week - I do it once a day.

But then again - it has to do with the design of the filesystem. HFS+ is built on B+ trees which are blazingly fast to search, I'm told.

[heavyt]

I see. I should add that Mac OS 8 is just as fast

[garn]