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- GLIMPSE 3.5: searching entire file systems
- (http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/)
-
- Glimpse is a very powerful indexing and query system that allows you to
- search through all your files very quickly. It can be used by
- individuals for their personal file systems as well as by organizations
- for large data collections. Glimpse is also the basis of GlimpseHTTP,
- which provides search for web sites, and it is the default search engine
- in Harvest (see below).
-
- Glimpseindex, which you run by saying "glimpseindex DIR" builds an
- index of all text files in the tree rooted at DIR.
- (e.g., glimpseindex ~ indexes all your files.) With it, glimpse can
- search through all files much the same way as agrep (or any other
- grep), except that you don't have to specify file names and the search
- is fast. For example,
-
- glimpse -1 unbelievable
-
- will find all occurrences (in all your files!) of "unbelievable"
- allowing one spelling error;
-
- glimpse -F mail arizona
-
- will find all occurrences of "arizona" in all files with "mail" somewhere
- in their name;
-
- glimpse 'Arizona desert;windsurfing'
-
- will find all lines that contain both "Arizona desert" and "windsurfing".
-
- Glimpse supports three types of indexes: a tiny one (2-3% of the
- size of all files), a small one (7-9%), and a medium one (20-30%).
- The larger the index the faster the search.
- Glimpse supports most of agrep's options (agrep is our powerful version
- of grep, and it is part of glimpse) including approximate matching
- (e.g., finding misspelled words), Boolean queries, and even some
- limited forms of regular expressions.
-
- The WWW home page for glimpse is in
- http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/
- It includes links to the source, binaries for most UNIX systems,
- documentations, articles, and more.
-
- GlimpseHTTP home page is in
- http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/ghttp/
-
- Harvest's WWW home page is
- http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/
- (Harvest is an integrated set of tools to gather, extract,
- organize, search, cache, and replicate relevant information
- across the Internet.)
-
- Mail glimpse-request@cs.arizona.edu to be added to the glimpse mailing list.
- Mail glimpse@cs.arizona.edu to report bugs, ask questions, discuss
- tricks for using glimpse, etc. (This is a moderated mailing list.)
-
- Udi Manber, Burra Gopal, and Sun Wu.
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