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Originally Posted by salparadise
Install findutils-locate, su to root and type updatedb and then find stuff on the comand line with locate filename, you can always pipe stuff to grep to refine the search. It's faster (seemingly) than gui searches and it's always good to know the command line way of doing stuff.
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But it will only search for file names, of course. The interesting thing about Beagle is that it will index the file content, even if the files are compressed, pdf, possibly websites you visit etc. So Beagle and locate don't serve the same purpose.
