Re: [Bulk] Re: [opensuse] Beagle waste On Sunday 17 February 2008 13:35, Sudhir wrote:
> This begs the question if anyone finds beagle useful and actually uses
> it.  I have found that the hard disk shows a lot of activity when beagle
> runs.
>
> I either remove it when installing or first thing post install.
>
> Could fellow list members indicate if they find beagle useful or not?
>
> Regards.

Say you go to conference and get an CD/DVD full of abstracts/papers in pdf 
form, and you want to find all of the occurrences of topic X or individual Y.  

(This applies to any collection of pdf files.  I have pdf files of about 17 
issues of the short-lived TUX magazine. I've glanced through them at one 
point and there were a few interesting topics covered, but I don't remember 
specifically which issue contained which article.)

Say you download an archive of one or more of the suse lists and you want to 
find messages on a particular topic.

Beagle can index the CONTENT of these files and the search becomes easy.  I'm 
not sure how one would achieve this with 'locate', 'grep', etc.

So yes, beagle has its uses.


-- 
Don


