Can anyone #recommend a full-text, indexing search for #debian #linux? It seems like there's no singular solution, like Spotlight on OSX.
I have #Akonadi and #Tracker3 running. I've considered #Recoll and #SOLR.
In practice, I wind up using #grep and locate. Grep is a a worst-case personal search engine.
Bonus points if it doesn't require lots of config and if it is lightweight when idle.
This should be easy in 2022. Right?
Scenario:
Two machines: Desktop Debian/KDE, and Laptop (System76 PopOS based on debian)
I want to search all files on my filesystem for a fragment of an email address or mastodon domain name, including inside POP mail archives, gzip files, binary files, etc.
What I've tried so far:
KFind: eventually searched files, but took almost as long as grep, and the KFind window crashed when I tried to scroll results
Tracker3: It found a textfile with the relevant string. Didn't find anything else, and didn't update it's cache when I edited the file.
Grep: Slow, as expected, but my usual tool.
There was a discussion on Ycombinator. Several suggestions, and an author of one tool saying he didn't support it anymore personally.
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