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A fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK3
Language:
C
Have you checked fsearch? https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch It got very good in the last 1-2 years and while ext4 fs don't support a file index like NTFS does, fsearch is still very fast, caches its results, offers similar features etc.
FSearch is a fast file search utility, inspired by Everything Search Engine.
There is FSearch for GNU/Linux: https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch
+1 for Everything. Fsearch is a good alternative on Linux
I have settled on putting tags (bunch of words I associate with given subject separated by underscores) in names of files/directories and using FSearch (https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch) to search for the tags in names/paths.
It's simple, it's portable, it's good enough. You could in theory improve it by having multiple views of the same data (let's say you want to save some notes about "Naturalis Historia" - should you put it under "ancient Rome" directory or under"biology"?) for example by using hardlinks but I don't know if there is a way to create a backup on another filesystem that will keep hardlinks as hardlinks (DAR seems promising http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/Features.html but I have yet to try it).
FSearch is inspired by Everything. https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch
For general file search at ludicious speeds like Everything does on windows its pretty good :)
FSearch is an equivalent for Linux.
Interface-wise we got Fsearch (https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch) on Linux, but it's not feature complete. I love Everything, and I get a bit nostaligic over these simple but feature packed windows apps that are all but living fossils in the .NET and WFP times.