Scour docs
Keeps your files and folders in its own index and answers searches without walking the disk again. Use it from a window, the terminal or a browser.
Linux, MIT / Apache-2.0, alpha
First steps
- Introduction
What Scour is, why it keeps an index, its four faces, and how this documentation is laid out.
- Installation
Prebuilt binaries or a build from source, which distributions the binaries run on, and the steps to a first search.
What you can do
- Four faces
- A terminal command, a desktop window, a browser page and a full-screen terminal — which is for what, and what they share.
- Watching
- How the index keeps up: why inotify is not used, why fanotify asks for root once, and what happens without the mark.
- Ignore rules
- What never enters the index, the three sources of rules, managing them from any interface, and what changing one costs.
If something goes wrong
Include the version number and your distribution.
Reference
- Query languageA sentence you lengthen when you need to: filters, comparisons, wildcards and the fields the filesystem already knows.