It is only for Linux. That was my barrier. It has no portability to Mac or BSDs. It is a great tool and really comes in handy. There is an package called inotify-tools that does some basic watching. I've used it in the past. Calvin On Feb 26, 2012 6:50 AM, "Andrea Crotti" <andrea.crotti.0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's a bit a shame that there isn't any default good indexing system for > Linux. > Now there is also a inotify implementation and tools to set up watchers on > the filesystem, > so why are we still mainly stuck with locate and the expensive updatedb? > > Are there other problems with the inotify approach maybe or just lack of > developer interest? >
