Somebody scribbled about Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool? >But do these searches use the slocate database, or are they just brute > force, ' look at every file' type searches?
Well, slocate is there to find file names really fast. Seems that the OP is rather interested in finding in files certain key words. slocate is a database of file *names*, not their contents. And if you're looking for a particular file name (foo.txt) that's the tool, otherwise it's back to using find ... | xargs grep to search for specific text. find/grep is pretty fast but what the OP might be interested in is an indexing tool, especially if there are many text files, which there seems to be. One tool, for example is glimpse. As an aside can we watch the subj lines? All these extra [2[ and stuff getting put in makes the posts scatter all through my inbox. > >derek -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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