What Linux program is closest to SuperCat (no Nonsense) for Win XP?

rkh986 · 05-14-2011, 03:23 AM

What Linux software might be considered among optimum choices to rapidly catalog and allow rapid searches of files on many (hundreds) of discs as is done by SuperCat when using a Windows OS (like XP)?

Any thoughts will be appreciated.

acid_kewpie · 05-14-2011, 03:33 AM

I am not aware of anything specifically for that, but can't you just save a "find" or "ls -laR" output of the cd structure to a file and grep it? It wouldn't take much to make a few lines of script to even name the file after the volume name of the cd automatically., if that's a useful attribute for you.

xeleema · 05-14-2011, 03:33 AM

Greetingz!

I would recommend reading up on the "updatedb" and "locate" (or "slocate") commands.
Those would basically do exactly what you're looking for, without stuffing everything into a crazy little DB like SuperCat.

Note that those are command-line utilities, if you're looking for something with a GUI, there's a few apps over on Freshmeat.Net (but it depends on what kinda of data your cataloging).

acid_kewpie · 05-14-2011, 03:36 AM

actually, there's a program called cdcat http://cdcat.sourceforge.net/, that might be useful. Or cdcollect also http://cdcollect.sourceforge.net/

acid_kewpie · 05-14-2011, 03:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xeleema

Greetingz!

I would recommend reading up on the "updatedb" and "locate" (or "slocate") commands.
Those would basically do exactly what you're looking for, without stuffing everything into a crazy little DB like SuperCat.

Note that those are command-line utilities, if you're looking for something with a GUI, there's a few apps over on Freshmeat.Net (but it depends on what kinda of data your cataloging).

I was going to suggest locate, but there's no chance of file attribute being there, and also unless the name of the cd is in the path, it won't actually tell you what disk it is on.

xeleema · 05-14-2011, 03:42 AM

@acid_kewpie
I was working under the assumption that the volume manager would mount the disk under a subdirectory named after the volume label.

I should stop doing that.

jschiwal · 05-14-2011, 04:07 AM

At work, I use DVDs to backup video files. I use ls & sed to create a CSV file for each disc, and then a script which combines them and uses enscript to create a postscript file which I convert to a pdf. People using the pdf catalog can simply use the Find feature of any pdf reader to locate which backup disc contains which spot.

If you use K3b to create your discs, the saved job file contains zipped XML files which you can use to create a catalog or database.