Voodoo is a web application that can help you locate files by name and save you
from the hell of find when the target directory is fairly large. It is
specifically serving some privately shared directories in PICB, but you can
easily extend and apply it to any system.
- Search by file category
- Multiple target directories support
- Case sensitive/insensitive setting
- Regular expression support
The database used is powered by mlocate,
which is shipped in most Linux distributions (e.g. Arch Linux, Debian, RHEL,
Ubuntu). It periodically maintains a directory tree database which is used to
locate files efficiently. In the same way, the database used by Voodoo is
produced using updatedb coming within mlocate. It is updated daily as a cron
job.
The web server side scripting was previously in Perl CGI (see bin/voodoo.pl).
Now it is moved to Sinatra in Ruby.
jQuery is used to facilitate client side scripting.
Voodoo is currently running on OpenShift developed by Redhat Inc. Go to http://voodoo.xiaoyong.org/ for a glimpse.