Catfish

Catfish is a versatile file searching tool. Catfish is a search GUI powered by locate and find behind the scenes, with autocompletion from Zeitgeist and locate. The advanced options allow filtering by date and file type.

Free
Open Source
Linux
Xfce

Catfish is a versatile file searching tool.

Catfish is a search GUI powered by locate and find behind the scenes, with autocompletion from Zeitgeist and locate. The advanced options allow filtering by date and file type. The interface is intentionally lightweight and simple, using only GTK+.

Requirements: PyGtk, GTK+3, pythonxdg, dbus

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