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- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: full text instant searching wanted.
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.151942.29374@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:19:42 GMT
- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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- From the keyboard of srghcxp@grace.cri.nz:
- :hi world,
- : i'm looking for a utility that lets you do 'word' searching
- :on a directory tree via a complete word index.
- :
- :e.g. you create an index on
- :
- : text/docs/...
- :
- :then ask for all files containing the word "tennis"
- :
- :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)
- :
- :i've seen this for pc's, but not for unix or vax/vms, does such a
- :utility exist??
-
- Get Liam Quin's excellent lqtext system, available from ftp.toronto.edu
- in /pub/lq-text* .
-
- --tom
-
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- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
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