Open Source Linux Search Software

DocFetcher is an Open Source desktop search application: It allows you to search the contents of files on your computer. — You can think of it as Google for your local files. The application runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Katalog is a desktop application to manage catalogs of disks and files: - Create catalogs from different sources or devices, - Search files even when the devices are disconnected, and find duplicates or differences - Organize your Collection of catalogs, Storage devices, and Virtual storage devices and get Statistics, - Data is stored in csv (tab separated) files for full control by the user, - Available in multiple languages - OpenSource and cross-platform (Linux Plasma and Windows 64 installer or portable). First use / tips - Simply start with the Create screen. Create your first catalog and experiment! - All data/catalog files are stored in the Settings/Collection folder. Documentation/Wiki: https://stephanecouturier.github.io/Katalog/ Follow Katalog on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Katalog-107117844916308 Follow active development: https://github.com/users/StephaneCouturier/projects/7

A small application for listing the contents(files/folders/extensions) of a folder. The results includes file name length/full path length/maximum extensions. It supports exporting a report in .txt/.csv format with fully customizable contents.

Puggle is a graphical desktop search engine written exclusively in Java. It provides full text and metadata search over files, folders, music, photos, web pages and more that are stored locally on your computer.

DuMP3 is a duplicate and similar file finder. It finds exact duplicate binaries by hash, similar text files by substring content, images (JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, etc) by color and audio files (MP3, WAV, OGG, etc) by wave data. Future: fonts, video.

disk manager is a CD/DVD archiving tool. It storys the directory contents of any media so you can search it later. Its also designed as file explorer which makes it easy to find big files. Windows Version supports native file context menus.

This is a autorun menu for cd's. It link a name with a file and a short description. It can execute/open files, copy directories, execute commands, etc and it is really easy to use. (Spanish)

This is a python based UI application that can rename a part of a set of files inside a directory based on the provided regular expression. This gives a lot more flexibility compared to other renaming files since it used grouping principle. This had two level of applying the rename, first stage shows who it will be when you rename it, if you are fine with the change you can make it permanent by clicking commit. This avoid the risk of file getting corrupted. To rename all .py file to .pyc is as follows: Search for Regex: (.py)$ Rename using this regex: .pyw

CD Maze is an easy to use CD-ROM/DVD-ROM catalog system for the GNOME/Unix/Linux-Desktop.

Files, text, and bookmarks html/json search tool. It is able to merge duplicated bookmark links from multiple html/json files and export to html. The user interface is designed to be used by kyeboard in any aspect of its features scrolling list, select input field, menu bar, check and drop-down menu and so on. It's able to printout search list to pdf or system printer or save as text file. It allows to rename single file or change upper/lower case, join spaces in bulk mode with multiple level of undo and redo capability. You are also able to copy selected files to another location as single element or with its orginal parent folder usuful for audio and video files. You can launch the program associate with the file or open it in its container folder. For audio/video/text files you can configure for each of them a program to use and configure options to pass to the program. For example you could use, for example, Notepad++ and pass in its option "-n<number>" to open at certain row.

Java application using tree map algorithms to visualise disc space usage. Lets find forgotten large "space-eaters" files in an easy way.

A simple document management system (DMS). Documents and associated datas are stored in a single file. Keep all your documents in your pocket on your USB stick.

DupLichaSe is a very fast Duplicate File Detector that uses inductive heuristics to detect duplicate files very fast; based on content! DupLichaSe stands out from EVERY other Duplicate file detection Software because of it's graph based semi-automatic selection system. ... after finding 100s of duplicate files, do you have to go through some manual and possibly laborious process of deleting the duplicates? ...or is there a way for the Software to learn and do most of it for you in a SAFE and RECOVERABLE MANNER? YES!! There is!! ...This Software will ALSO help you and delete duplicate files, after you must have taken action on a a FEW important files(i.e large files that are duplicates). ++Thanks to its trivial Graph based suggestion System

Duplicate Checker searches your folders for identical files. It comes with an easy to use graphical user interface, and an effective command line mode.

The goal of DynaQ is to develop an inquiry system to explore the personal information space, supporting you with the searching paradigm 'orienteering'. DynaQ is a (desktop)search engine with enhanced functionality for file, email and blog search. Look at our GitLab homepage for sourcecode and documentation: http://dynaq.opendfki.de

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The aim of this project is to develop, in the cleanest way (respecting GNU standards and portability), a C++ GUI program, named Fisoco, permetting to users to organize their files (particularly music, for instance) at home. You will be able to locate files on the system, to delete them, to move them, to convert them, to rename them, etc. Fisoco means FInding, SOrting and COnverting. It is perhaps not the final name, but it sounds well to me. Its development is progressing slowly, as the developper learn how does work C++ and gtkmm.

The GIS Metadata Manager is a simple Java-based desktop application to manage files from geographic information systems (GIS) in a specified directory by grouping files into records, adding metadata and searching the metadata to find files.

GLScube is an Augmented File System designed to offer a rich interface to the users' data, and pull, both end-users and developers, from thinking about Where a Document is to What a Document is about.

HereItIs is an application for Linux/KDE designed to create catalogs of computer media collections. Meta information, full text and thumbnails are extracted from documents, images, mp3 and other media allowing immediate and accurate information retrieval

Integra desktop search engine - cross-platform, portable, embeddable, extensible search engine and search tools (both console and GUI) for developers and end-users. Full unicode support, easy UI localisation, plugins for document parsers and unpackers.

If you have ever tried to locate files, classes, and resources buried amongst an ever shifting locus of ZIP and / or JAR files, we feel your pain! After spending far too much time searching hundreds of archives for moving targets, I decided to write JarOMine. Originally designed for locating Java classes, JarOMine works equally well with ZIP archives, too.

a group of network tools aimed to promote, search and rate shared resources. Basicly, it consists of console indexing utilities and web front-end to the database.

PALOMA Suite allows the referencing of learning resources using metadata according to the international IEEE LOM standard, and SCORM, CANCORE and Normetic application profiles. PALOMA Suite contains: PALOMA (Standard), PALOMAWeb and PALOMARepository.

Plait (pronounced "play") is a command-line jukebox and music player front-end. It understands brief queries that pick a single song, mix queries that combine works from multiple artists, and stream queries that find Shoutcast radio streams.