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DocFetcher vs mlocate

A side-by-side look at DocFetcher and mlocate. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

DocFetcher

DocFetcher

Office & Productivity

DocFetcher is an open source desktop search application for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X that indexes documents on your computer and allows fast keyword searching.

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mlocate

mlocate

Os & Utilities

mlocate is a command line utility in Linux for quickly locating files based on their name or a regular expression. It maintains a database of files and directories to allow fast lookups compared to searching the whole file system.

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