On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 03:18:51AM +0100, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:20:49 -0500 > Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#Desktop_search_engines > > For some reason, the one that I've been using, recoll, isn't on the > list (I don't think that I can edit it, since I'm apparently not an > "established, registered user"). There is also Tracker, (http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/) it can be used with deskbar-applet. I have been using it fora while with very good results, before I used beagle but its heavier and uses mono. -- ______________________________________________ José Santos | Debian Lenny/Sid mixed system jsantos@ubi.pt | 2.6.30.1-686 SMP PREEMPT
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