Re: hard drive indexing and realtime searching

From: Robert Brockway (rbrockway_at_opentrend.net)
Date: 02/21/05

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    On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Simon Frettloeh wrote:

    > 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?

    Ah ok. "grep -r" and "strings" to the rescue :) It would probably not be
    hard to put together a tool which did the equivalent of a "file" [1] on
    each file it found in the regex search and applied the right grep/search
    tool.

    [1] Done internally of couse. forking() a new copy of file for each file
    would be evil. Yes people do this with find.

    When I need to do this I use grep -r but I admit this misses pdfs which I
    have an increasing amount of information in.

    Rob 

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