FW: [LINK] Big patch for big hole in Google Desktop

Daniel Rose drose at nla.gov.au
Fri Feb 23 08:16:57 AEDT 2007


 

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> [mailto:link-bounces at anumail0.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Rick Welykochy
> Posted At: Thursday, 22 February 2007 12:05 PM
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> Conversation: [LINK] Big patch for big hole in Google Desktop
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> Howard Lowndes wrote:
> 
> > I have two excellent tools for searching my PC - "find" and 
> "grep" - 
> > who needs more?
> 
> Of course most user are shell phobic, or ashellistic for want 
> of a better term.
> 
> Perhaps there is a market for a GUI version of all the 
> wonderful tools us shellistics use everyday. And imagine 
> being able to pipe the output from one GUI tool into the next?
> 

Textpipe pro has had a go at it:

http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/textpipe.html

But I've seen what a lisper can do in emacs in thirty seconds, so I
doubt that this effectively competes with the *nix tools.  Probably
faster to learn though.




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