Re: hard drive indexing and realtime searching

[Sven Hoexter <sven@timegate.de>]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 04:33:06PM +0000, Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Simon Frettloeh wrote:
> 
> >I think, he's meaning a full-text index (like grepping the files for
> >text) espescially for pdf and office documents. Not only searching for
> >filenames. Is that right?
> 
> Ah ok.  "grep -r" and "strings" to the rescue :)  It would probably not be 
> hard to put together a tool which did the equivalent of a "file" [1] on 
> each file it found in the regex search and applied the right grep/search 
> tool.
I guess it would be easier to use a toll prepared for such tasks.
htdig is only for sites accesable via http but there are similar projects:
http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=search&section=projects

Sven
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