Re: Is there an indexing tool in linux that can help quickly search the contents of all my files?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-08-29 19:25, Kevin Ross wrote:
> > 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

Good that it supports ODF files, Tbird mbox files and man pages. 
Bad that it doesn't support local IMAP servers, nor AbiWord and 
Gnumeric documents.

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