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hulitu
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Locate works great.
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Jenda_
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Locate is for file names, not file contents.
deepspace
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ripgrep for contents
pseudalopex
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ripgrep is fast for what it is. But indexes are faster.
Jenda_
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Additionally, I would expect indexing to extract text contents from non-plain-text formats. (such as Recoll does)
xtracto
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How's its GUI? you know, because I was talking about GUI based file searching.
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