Re: Multifile search
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- Subject: [mg91497] Re: Multifile search
- From: ragfield <ragfield at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:05:21 -0400 (EDT)
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On Aug 22, 2:20 am, Curtis Osterhoudt <c... at lanl.gov> wrote:
> I like Google Desktop (use the linux version), but there's one th=
ing which
> is VERY annoying to me, and pretty much a show-stopper for searching for =
my
> Mathematica .m files (at least on linux): It ignores hidden ("dot") files=
.
> Google knows of this, and ignores it (or has decided it's not wor=
th
> changing for privacy reasons or something like that, but I haven't read a
> good explanation). This isn't a huge issue for many things, but my main
> Mathematica package files are in a /home/username/.Mathematica directory,
> which I am loath to change. Therefore, Google Desktop never sees them.
> Instead, I have to use Recoll and/or some of the newer strigi tools (for
> linux).
Perhaps you could use a symlink to make this work:
mv .Mathematica Mathematica
ln -s Mathematica .Mathematica
-Rob
- References:
- Re: Multifile search
- From: Albert Retey <awnl@gmx-topmail.de>
- Re: Multifile search