Apps similar to Terrier include Everything, which is free. Other options are DocFetcher, Cling Fuzzy Finder, Recoll and Clapgrep. File Search Utilities like Terrier are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac and Android.
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Baloo is not an application, but a daemon to index files. Applications can use the Baloo framework to provide file search results.
Wherever you have files DeskRule can locate them. Search your hard disk, but also in mobile phones and cameras, zipfolders, FTP, OneDrive and all the other virtual shell folders.
Find files fast across folders, drives, disks and machines and emails in MS Outlook, find duplicates. Attach labels, bookmarks and comments, automatic backup, synchronize, messaging. Tag Web pages while downloading. Share labels with others.
Panofind allows you to find texts in more than 70 document & media formats (like PDF, Word, Excel, etc.), more formats will be added in future versions. The tool will also index the files in a variety of compressed archives.
rga is a line-oriented search tool that allows you to look for a regex in a multitude of file types. rga wraps the awesome ripgrep and enables it to search in pdf, docx, sqlite, jpg, zip, tar.*, movie subtitles (mkv, mp4), etc.
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