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How does Recoll do a full text search?
Recoll is a desktop full-text search tool. Recoll finds documents based on their contents as well as their file names. It can search most document formats. You may need external applications for text extraction. It can reach any storage place: files, archive members, email attachments, transparently handling decompression.
What do you need to know about Recoll?
You may need external applications for text extraction. It can reach any storage place: files, archive members, email attachments, transparently handling decompression. One click will open the document inside a native editor or display an even quicker text preview.
Which is the latest version of Recoll software?
The current Recoll version is 1.31.0 (Release notes, Release history). Recoll is based on the very capable Xapian search engine library, for which it provides a powerful text extraction layer and a complete, yet easy to use, Qt graphical interface. Recoll has extensive documentation.
What’s the name of the indexing file in Recoll?
This was previously named ~/.config/Recoll.org/recoll.conf, and it is is now ~/.config/Recoll.org/recoll.ini. Changing back would risk causing even more trouble for the people who have began using the new file, and besides, the new name avoids confusion with the indexing configuration file ~/.recoll/recoll.conf.
Is there a way to open a document in Recoll?
One click will open the document inside a native editor or display an even quicker text preview. A WEB front-end with preview and download features can replace or supplement the GUI for remote use. The software is free on Linux, open source, and licensed under the GPL.
How to recursively look for files with specific extension?
This could very well be expanded to match multiple files i.e. file ending with multiple extension (i.e. similar to adding multiple flags in find command). For example consider a case of needing to get all recursive image files i.e. of extensions *.gif, *.png and *.jpg, all you need to is