RE: Is there an indexing tool in linux that can help quickly search the contents of all my files?
> From: Peng Yu [mailto:pengyu.ut@gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 5:21 PM
>
> Hi,
>
> On windows machines, there is "google desktop" which searchs the files
> contents. Mac has "spotlight" which also search the file contents in a
> mac machine.
>
> In linux, I know the command 'locate' which search all the filenames.
> But I am wondering if there is a tool that can search file contents.
>
> I know that the combination of 'find' and 'grep' can search the
> contents, but it is slow. Can somebody let me know if there is a much
> faster solution which might rely on an indexing database?
>
> Regards,
> Peng
If you like Google Desktop, there's a Linux version.
http://desktop.google.com/linux/index.html
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