Free search for files software for linux

search4files project is a handy file search tool using different backends which is configurable via the command line.

This program acts as a frontend for different file search engines. The interface is intentionally lightweight and simple. But it takes configuration options from the command line.

Currently find, (s)locate, tracker and beagle are supported as backends.

File::Searcher is a searches for files and performs search/replacements on matching files.

SYNOPSIS

use File::Searcher;
my $search = File::Searcher->new(*.cgi);
$search->add_expression(name=>street,
search=>1234 Easy St.,
replace=>456 Hard Way,
options=>i);
$search->add_expression(name=>department,
search=>(Dept.|Department)(s+)(d+),
replace=>$1$2$3,
options=>im);
$search->add_expression(name=>place,
search=>Portland, OR(.*?)97212,
replace=>Vicksburg, MI${1}49097,
options=>is);
$search->start;
# $search->interactive; SEE File::Searcher::Interactive
@files_matched = $search->files_matched;
print "Files Matchedn";
print "t" . join("nt", @files_matched) . "n";
print "Total Files:t" . $search->file_cnt . "n";
print "Directories:t" . $search->dir_cnt . "n";
my @files_replaced = $search->expression(street)->files_replaced;
my @files_replaced = $search->expression($expression)->files_replaced;
my %matches = $search->expression(street)->matches;
my %replacements = $search->expression(street)->replacements;

File::Searcher allows for the traversing of a directory tree for files matching a Perl regular expression. When a match is found, the statistics are stored and if the file is a text file a series of searches and replacements can be performed. File::Searcher has options that allow for backing-up / archiving files and has OO access to reporting and statistics of matches and replacements.

Search::Glimpse is a Perl extension to communicate with Glimpse server.

SYNOPSIS

use Search::Glimpse;

my $glimpse = Search::Glimpse->new;

my @results = $glimpse->search("search this string");

ABSTRACT

This module is an extension to use glimpse server from Perl.

Quick hack to connect to glimpse server.

new

Creates a new glimpse object.

search

Search on a glimpse object

hits

Returns the number of hits...

files

Returns the number of files...

DGS Search was created to provide an easy to install search utility capable of handling filesystem and database searches on UNIX and Windows based platforms.

DGS Search is aimed at supporting the small to medium sized web site.

Yahoo::Search::Result is a class representing a single result (single web page, image, video file, etc) from a Yahoo! search-engine query. (This package is included in, and automatically loaded by, the Yahoo::Search package.)

Package Use ^

You never need to use this package directly -- it is loaded automatically by Yahoo::Search.

Object Creation ^

Result objects are created automatically when a Response object is created (when a Request objects Fetch method is called, either directly, or indirectly via a shortcut such as Yahoo::Search->Query().

Search::Dict is a Perl module to search for key in dictionary file.

SYNOPSIS

use Search::Dict;
look *FILEHANDLE, $key, $dict, $fold;

use Search::Dict;
look *FILEHANDLE, $params;

Sets file position in FILEHANDLE to be first line greater than or equal (stringwise) to $key. Returns the new file position, or -1 if an error occurs.

The flags specify dictionary order and case folding:

If $dict is true, search by dictionary order (ignore anything but word characters and whitespace). The default is honour all characters.

If $fold is true, ignore case. The default is to honour case.

If there are only three arguments and the third argument is a hash reference, the keys of that hash can have values dict, fold, and comp or xfrm (see below), and their correponding values will be used as the parameters.

If a comparison subroutine (comp) is defined, it must return less than zero, zero, or greater than zero, if the first comparand is less than, equal, or greater than the second comparand.

If a transformation subroutine (xfrm) is defined, its value is used to transform the lines read from the filehandle before their comparison.

Wikipedia search is a superkaramba theme for searching on en.wikipedia.org.

Based on Answers.com karamba by sg1 http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=30887

Thanks to Rcio Zienke for language config entry.

To-do

- make some transtalations
- display article in wikipedia search window