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Re: hard drive indexing and realtime searching



On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 07:48 -0800, Steven Anderson wrote:
> Dear Debian Users:
> 
> I wonder wether there is any projects under way to
> give Linux the same type of searching and indexing
> features that are going to be availbable with Windows
> Longhorn and  Mac OS 10.4? I understand that there is
> a db...somthing command that will index the hard drive
> now which i ran across some time ago. Unfortunately it
> did not seem to work when I issued the command
> although it ran somthing all night long. Anyone know
> what command this is since I cant seem to find it
> again. Also anyone know of any indexing projects?
> 
> Thanks,
i think that you are talknig about 'updatedb' (for indexing) and
'locate' (for locataing)...

maxi




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