Open Source Linux Search Software

Katalog is a desktop application to manage catalogs of disks and files: - Create catalogs from different sources or devices, - Search files even when the devices are disconnected, and find duplicates or differences - Organize your Collection of catalogs, Storage devices, and Virtual storage devices and get Statistics, - Data is stored in csv (tab separated) files for full control by the user, - Available in multiple languages - OpenSource and cross-platform (Linux Plasma and Windows 64 installer or portable). First use / tips - Simply start with the Create screen. Create your first catalog and experiment! - All data/catalog files are stored in the Settings/Collection folder. Documentation/Wiki: https://stephanecouturier.github.io/Katalog/ Follow Katalog on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Katalog-107117844916308 Follow active development: https://github.com/users/StephaneCouturier/projects/7

DuMP3 is a duplicate and similar file finder. It finds exact duplicate binaries by hash, similar text files by substring content, images (JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, etc) by color and audio files (MP3, WAV, OGG, etc) by wave data. Future: fonts, video.

This program is a GUI for the command line tool grep and pdfgrep. Pdfgrep search text in multiple PDF files and grep can serach text in multiple text files. You can use regular expressions for the search (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression). This GUI and the command line tools work without indexing. The following options are used: -i (ignore case) and -F (fixed strings), -n (Print page number or output lines) and -H (Print the file name for each match) from the command line tool. The -r option will be done by the program itself. Performance: This GUI works well when searching in several hundreds of documents (depends on the speed of your computer and the length of the documents). Config Dir: [homedir]/.config/pdfgrepgui Available Languages: - English - German You can add your own language by editing the file [homedir]/.config/pdfgrepgui/language.set

This small C# (mono or MS.NET 3.5 required) console program generates text or html output which lists directories and files. Copies of directory or file names will be marked in HTML output. I use it to find files in a messy company network.

eix can access Gentoo portage ebuild information and description very quickly (using a local cache). It can also be used to access information on installed packages, local settings, and local and external overlays, and informs about changes in the tree.

CD Maze is an easy to use CD-ROM/DVD-ROM catalog system for the GNOME/Unix/Linux-Desktop.

A Python/Tk gui for find and grep. FindEmAll is, compared with other similar file search tools, fast and resource-efficient and independent from any desktop environment (no Gnome or KDE libraries required).

The GIS Metadata Manager is a simple Java-based desktop application to manage files from geographic information systems (GIS) in a specified directory by grouping files into records, adding metadata and searching the metadata to find files.

Maloney finds documents, mails, photos and many other files on your desktop computer. It comes as a standalone application or as a plug-in for your eclipse IDE.

a Solr Based Semantic Mediawiki Store

Search Help is a very helpful and easy-to-use program. You can search for web pages, photos, lyrics or you can translate words from german to english and otherwise. Search Help uses some of the well-known search engines to get results.

Set of various network observing and searching services (FTP indexer, SMB indexer, gameserver pinger and history logger, web interface for search and management) mainly for LAN-Parties. Technologies: C#, ASP.NET, IIS, MSSQL, Access, TCPIP

gDiscoverer is a search tool, that is providing a inexact search, that means, that you could type in "lunex" and get "Linux" as result.