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Originally Posted by LwdSquashman I beg to differ. Console computing has many uses and is still used today. A shell prompt is the most powerful thing in the World. Just ask any Hacker or SysAdmin.
But I understand your frustration with a search utility that is a little easier to use. Linux on the desktop is still evolving. Microsoft and Apple had a 15 year head start and Linux is catching up pretty quickly. |
There you get it. I use Win2000 at work and I use Linux at home for the web. I find search/indexing on the 2000 so useful and was pleased to know unix had grep and slocate all along. I bookmark the console recipes now which is almost as fast as a menu.
BTW I used from your previous post
fgrep -i -r -u 'foobar' /mnt/foo/* > found.txt
I checked manual pages for grep but no switch works for searchinf binary. The -u and -w when used dumps the entire binary file instead of the first lines of occurence.