Re: hard drive indexing and realtime searching

From: Simon Frettloeh (simon.frettloeh_at_stud.uka.de)
Date: 02/21/05

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To: Robert Brockway <rbrockway@opentrend.net>

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    Robert Brockway wrote:
    > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Steven Anderson wrote:
    >
    > You mean that capability we've had for the last (I don't know how many)
    > years? :)
    >
    >> a db...somthing command that will index the hard drive
    >> now which i ran across some time ago. Unfortunately it
    >> did not seem to work when I issued the command
    >> although it ran somthing all night long. Anyone know
    >> what command this is since I cant seem to find it
    >> again. Also anyone know of any indexing projects?
    >
    > updatedb is used to index the HD and locate is used to search the DB.
    >
    > If updatedb did not work as you expect you may wish to strace it to see
    > what it is doing.

    I think, he's meaning a full-text index (like grepping the files for
    text) espescially for pdf and office documents. Not only searching for
    filenames. Is that right?

    Bye,
    Smon

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