Bugs in Pfind 4.4

Sometimes Pfind misreports. I mostly use Pfind to search contents of files.

Once it reported no files found, but I knew the string was in a file.

Right now, I am searching the Xsane source, looking for the string 'WARN_XSANE_AS_ROOT', and it found 93 files matched, including even .ico, .png and .xpm images.

When it displays the results, if I want to do another search, Pfind has forgotten the directory that I had previously chosen and starts searching from '/'. I am forced to exit from Pfind and start again.

Anyway, I should not have to choose a directory in the first place. This was something that I requested ages ago -- if pfind is started in a terminal, the default search directory should be set to that directory, not to '/'. No one would ever want to search from '/' anyway.

So, I used Zfind, works real nice and easy. I started zfind from a terminal open in the xsane source directory, entered "*" in the 'name' box, "WARN_XSANE_AS_ROOT" in the 'contains' box, and it found two files.

Zfind though, is very limited, hardly any search options.

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Comments

Pfind-4.8
Username: coolpup
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=15136 Pfilesearch-1.12 http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=191378

Pfind alternative
Username: ttuuxxx
"Hi Barry Lately I've been Using Search Monkey, its a great replacement for Pfind, and has some really advanced features and is easily configured and takes 1/2 the CPU resources of Pfind and it not based on gtkdialog so it always shutsdown fully. You can test the puppy 4.0 version located at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=41486 and the sources you can get at http://sourceforge.net/projects/searchmonkey and the homepage which explains why it so good is good reading :) http://searchmonkey.sourceforge.net/index.php/Main_Page ttuuxxx

pfind
Username: zigbert
"I made a test right now (Pfind 4.8), and it seems to work for me. But I don't have the sane source, so it's hard to match our results. I wonder if you can point me to an example in the default Puppy filesystem. - I really need more flesh on the bone to solve this one. - Default searchdir is /, but can be changed in the preferences. - Yes, you have asked earlier about the 'search-in-my-directory' option. I then included the -d switch to both pfind and pfilesearch. 'pfind -d ./' uses your directory. There was no response of it, so I thought everything was ok... How can I determine if user starts pfind from terminal or not ? - You may also want to use the -a switch that points you to the advanced mode at once (pfind -a -d ./) ...... hmmm, while testing this I see a bug in Pfind 4.8 related to this. - Remember last used search-dir is added to my todo-list. Regards Sigmund

Re: Pfind
Username: BarryK
"Sigmund, mostly Pfind works ok. However something goes wrong with the finding sometimes, after I have used it for awhile -- could there be files left behind from previous seaches that cause confusion for the current search? At the beginning of the /usr/local/pfind/pfind script, have this: SEARCH_DIR="`pwd`" ...unless overridden by a commandline parameter. I just checked something. I put this: pwd > /tmp/z into the beginning of /usr/local/pfind/pfind ...content of /tmp/z is "/root" ...which is a good default place to search.

Pfind default dir
Username: BarryK
"To clarify my previous post, in the last paragraph I was checking what 'pwd' returns when Pfind is started from the menu.

Pfind and pwd
Username: zigbert
"In version 1 of Pfind the default search dir was set to /root/. But because of good argumentation from some users, it was changed to /. I agreed because /root/ doesn't make any sense the way I use Puppy. I don't store my data in pup_save, but on a mounted partition elsewhere. Searching in only /root/ wouldn't find my personal files....... Are you aware of the possibility to set Pfind to always use current dir as searchdir? In the preferences you can specify ./ to be your default choice. [IMG]http://i42.tinypic.com/15xr4wo.png[/IMG] I will upload a new bugfixed version of Pfind/Pfilesearch. Hopefully in this weekend. I'll try to make some searching to see if I can detect some bugs related to yours Sigmund

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