Hi, The Beagle project was aiming at something like this - including searching files, mails, etc. I am not sure whether they have made any releases or not. Please Google to find out. Anindya. On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:15:05PM +0000, James Grimwood wrote: > On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:03:54 +0000, Carl <carl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > At 15:01 09/03/2005 +0000, James Grimwood wrote: > > >Does anyone know if there's anything similar that works in Linux? > > > > > >I've got loads of documents on my machine and I'd like to search them > > >for text without having to wait ages for find and grep to scan through > > >each directory. > > > man slocate > > Yep, that lets me find files. Doesn't let me find text inside them though... > > -- > http://www.piku.org.uk - Outdoor Photos: http://www.piku.co.uk > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html