Open Source Desktop Operating Systems Search Software

CRGREP searches for matching text in databases, various document formats, archives and other difficult to access resources. A command line tool for name and content text matching in database tables, plain files, MS Office documents, PDF, archives, MP3 audio, image meta-data, scanned documents, maven dependencies and web resources. CRGREP will search resources within resources of any arbitrary combination or depth, so text within a document within a zip archive, and so on. Here you will find binary downloads and discussion (https://sourceforge.net/p/crgrep/discussion/) . The actual development and issue tracking can be found here: https://bitbucket.org/cryanfuse/crgrep

Bible Concordance generator and viewer for UNIX/Linux/Cygwin, written in C. Supports multiple word searches using boolean operators and Reverse Polish notation. Unlike printed concordances, shows complete verse, and in context.

A searcher and indexer to allow easy and fast locating of relevent information from a large collection of research papers. A Java backend with a web based frontend. Based on the Lucene indexer and searcher

Look for changed/added/deleted files existing in your removable media.

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.

Exostar LDAP Proxy is a specialized LDAP proxy used to look up X.509 encryption certificates for prospective recipients in secure e-mail applications. It can be used to fetch other types of end user certificates, CA certificates and CRLs

FTimes is a forensic system baselining, searching, and evidence collection tool. Its primary purpose is to gather and/or develop topographical information and attributes about specified directories and files in a manner conducive to intrusion and forensic analysis.

FARIF is a small VB6 utility that finds and replaces text within one or more files. As well as reporting the results of a search before replacement, it can also recursively search folders and has the option of case-sensitive searches.

Utility for searching files in DOS system. Capable of running on 8086 and higher processors.

JavaCat is an app for managing files on your different drives (cds, hdds...). It's especially usefull for searching files on your exchangeable drives such as cds and dvds. Instead of digging through several disc just use JavaCat to find reqired file and

Kriterion is a document retrieval and categorization engine capable of full text searching. There is no need for keyword or context-based information.

This project is abandoned. Download these files at your own risk. For the latest version please visit http://decafbad.net/projects/piddlepodder/ This application is a podcatching client written in Perl. It is based off of the simplicity of bashpodder with a few added features. It downloads podcasts from a list of XML feeds, and puts them into a download directory by date.

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.

Single Click Real Time searching of both structured and unstructured data and information. Simultaneous searching of Structured: databases and unstructured: documents from within a web browser, desktop application and application plugins

UltimateLauncher is an application and document launcher for windows systems.

Locate zip and jar files that content matches a pattern. Also useful for finding class files in jar files.

用c实现了常用的容器，如果rbtree,hashtable,list,vector,deque,heap,map,以及定时器，os api，应用开发框架。 实现了一个基于btree索引算法的文件数据库,提供了断电保护,以及事务提交与回滚等接口

This project is a tool to detect file types by signatures and mime types. It uses hash tables to make the detection of a file type as fast as possible. The signature and mime types lists are stored at simple user-friendly files. This file type detector supports a lot of formats (image, archive, text, documents, audio, video, fonts and others). It also includes Microsoft OLE compound file types. The detector's algorythm has special features to detect text file types like (HTML, XML, JSON, etc.) and text file UNICODE charsets by using their BOMs (Byte order marks). Its small simple interface can be used at the most popular platforms.

This is a simple Java front-end for the UNIX grep. It lets you search file contents also if you are not familiar with the command line or the regular expression syntax.

This tool try to find empty files and send mail alert by smtp if any found. Target of this platform is win32. On other platform exist simple way for this action.

PileWorks provides the organizational structure for coordinating several different projects which approach some aspect of Pile Technology. PileWorks defines a set of interfaces and implements some basic infrastructure for Pile engines and agents.

Trovi is a tool to search for text in multiple PDF files.