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- Subject: Fast word search on many files wanted.
- Message-ID: <2afff1de.bd7c@grace.cri.nz>
- From: srghcxp@grace.cri.nz
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 05:31:10 GMT
- Organization: Industrial Research Ltd., New Zealand.
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- Hi world,
- I'm looking for a utility that lets you do 'word' searching
- on a directory tree via a complete word index.
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- e.g. you create an index on
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- text/docs/...
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- Then ask for all files containing the word "tennis"
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- I'm not after grep, I know it can do this, but I want a fast (instant)
- response on a large directory tree, (at least 100 MB), so the program
- would have to maintain an index of all words in all files in the directory
- tree (which it would update each night)
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- I've seen this for PC's, but not for UNIX or VAX/VMS, does such a
- utility exist??
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- Much thanks for your time, Chris.
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- chrisp@grace.cri.nz
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