Hunt and Gather are two utiltities for indexing and then searching files within a drive or directory designed to speed up searching files. The Gather utility is meant to index any path and generate a search database. The Hunt utility will then open the database generated by Gather and look for files matching the string provided to Hunt as parameter.

• constant memory usage, meaning that Hunt & Gather can be used on any Amiga regardless the amount of installed memory,
• very fast lookup of files due to indexing,
• programmed having AmigaOS design in mind

HuntnGather can be checked out from Subversion:

• HuntnGather Subversion

via the command:

svn co https://svn.grimore.org/HuntnGather/trunk

The Subersion package may be required on the Amiga.

Either:

• use the provided installer,
• copy the Gather and Hunt binaries matching your CPU from C/ into C:

Issue:

Gather RAM:

where RAM: is a drive you want to index. The indexing will take some time depending on the amount of files to be indexed.

Issue:

Hunt prefs

to search the drive RAM: for filenames matching "prefs". If any files are found, Hunt will print out the full path to the files.

• The "Gather" utility can run on a schedule periodically to index the contents of a drive or device.