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locate for indexing and searching indexes
of files on removable media.
I have many CD-ROMs of files. Linux distributions, magazine coverdiscs,
my own CDR archives all have potentially useful files which I might want to
use in the future, but these are no use if I don't know which CD to find them
on. More often than not it is quicker to download a new copy of the file
from the internet than put each possible CD in the drive, mount it and run find.
What would be useful is a database of the CD files and then that be searched.
This is a very similar idea to the GNU locate program,
which keeps a database of the files on a system which can be updated and
search when necessary. This is much faster than running find
on a filesystem.
I have modelled my solution on locate. It does not implement
all the options of locate yet (and will never, some are not
relevent) and will have extra features not in locate
that I think useful. However, all similar options
will be modelled on those in locate.