On 2009-08-29 19:25, Kevin Ross wrote:
From: Peng Yu [mailto:pengyu...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 5:21 PM
Hi,
On windows machines, there is "google desktop" which searchs the files
contents. Mac has "spotlight" which also search the file contents in a
mac machine.
In linux, I know the command 'locate' which search all the filenames.
But I am wondering if there is a tool that can search file contents.
I know that the combination of 'find' and 'grep' can search the
contents, but it is slow. Can somebody let me know if there is a much
faster solution which might rely on an indexing database?
Regards,
Peng
If you like Google Desktop, there's a Linux version.
http://desktop.google.com/linux/index.html
Good that it supports ODF files, Tbird mbox files and man pages.
Bad that it doesn't support local IMAP servers, nor AbiWord and
Gnumeric documents.
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