Shell and Zeitgeist: the future of GNOME?

Posted Apr 25, 2009 16:05 UTC (Sat) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Shell and Zeitgeist: the future of GNOME? by Los__D
Parent article: Shell and Zeitgeist: the future of GNOME?

Anything that can remove the importance of the structures when finding data (i.e. by providing alternative views) is a step forward.

find and locate generally do it for me. I've never yet run into a situation I couldn't solve with one or the other.

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Shell and Zeitgeist: the future of GNOME?

Posted Apr 30, 2009 15:02 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I have frequently run into situations I couldn't handle with find and locate (e.g. 'show me all the unstripped ELF executables and shared objects under this directory which I can write to and which are really unstripped, i.e. do not have a .gnu.debuglink' but actually contain the debugging information themselves. You can't do *that* with find/locate.

But find, locate, and 'other stuff with pipelines' should be able to handle everything. Of course 'other stuff' can include file(1)...

... maybe what we need is some sort of 'hierarchical file(1)', perhaps a way to ask boolean is-a questions of its MIME type database, and a much bigger MIME type database.