You can do that with the following grep command:
grep "theword" *.txt */*.txt */*/*.txt etc..
put a */* for all of the directory tree's.
I'm not a database expert, but maybe postres or mysql could do the trick.
On 23-Aug-98 Gevaerts Frank wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a faster way to search a directory tree for a
> certain word than "find /dir/ -name "*.txt"|xargs grep -l "theword" " ?
> I want to do this to make a search engine for my local (LAN) website.
> Since the site is over 50 megs (I mirror a lot of stuff for local use),
> and the server is a 486, the search takes more time than I would like.
>
> Is it possible to achieve the same effect using some database, while
> allowing a search for _ALL_ words, not just a few predefined keywords? If
> so, how?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Frank
>
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