Nazo
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So this is probably one of the silliest problems to run into, but I use an alternate shell (a BlackBox build -- specifically bbZero right now) and one of the stupidest little annoyances is that I don't really have any obvious means of getting to the built in search tool. (If there is some method I don't know it anyway.) Theoretically a third party tool could actually be better given how basic the built in tool is, but, oddly enough I haven't had a lot of luck. Particularly since the best stuff is commercial (seriously? Someone can actually sell a file search tool? ... I'm not paying real money for such an incredibly simplistic piece of software that I rarely even use and I can hardly imagine many others doing so...)
Right now I'm using one simply called "Locate." Problem with it is it does a file database, so I must update the database every time (or let it run in the background updating itself) which is exactly what I don't want (I consider this to be a waste of resources -- I'll just wait longer the rare times I search, especially since I usually can narrow down the search a fair bit anyway so that it only searches a handful of directories or so.) More importantly, this doesn't get along with external drives unless I manually add them to the database before even searching... With this last one I actually just gave up and went to a Cygwin terminal and used "find | grep filename" (which is probably not even a remotely optimal way to do it in a Bash terminal, but screw it, it works.)
Seriously silly problem and I've been putting off for years even bothering to seriously look into this, but I guess it's time I finally get around to it.
Right now I'm using one simply called "Locate." Problem with it is it does a file database, so I must update the database every time (or let it run in the background updating itself) which is exactly what I don't want (I consider this to be a waste of resources -- I'll just wait longer the rare times I search, especially since I usually can narrow down the search a fair bit anyway so that it only searches a handful of directories or so.) More importantly, this doesn't get along with external drives unless I manually add them to the database before even searching... With this last one I actually just gave up and went to a Cygwin terminal and used "find | grep filename" (which is probably not even a remotely optimal way to do it in a Bash terminal, but screw it, it works.)
Seriously silly problem and I've been putting off for years even bothering to seriously look into this, but I guess it's time I finally get around to it.