Re: An appropriate directory search tool?

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Richard Owlett wrote:
...
> I suspect what I want would most likely be what I'm looking for.
> "ls" can search by extension and stay in specified directory.
> It cannot include/exclude keywords.
>
> My immediate problem involves only a couple dozen files so manual search 
> is feasible.
>
> Suggestions?

  use and indexing system for text files.  use find for 
file names.

  there are already existing indexing/lookup systems
out there but i'm not looking for them...  that's your
homework.  ;)


  songbird