On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 14:08:34 -0400 Celejar sent:

> Yep - mine are 6+ GB, for a system containing only several tens of GB
> (at most) of indexable documents.
> 
> > Now I just use the find feature of mc, or grep.  
> 
> Doesn't that take quite a long time and lots of disk access for large
> collections of documents?

I usually know what directory I need to search and so it's
quite quick and using | less I can quickly move through the list and
find what I want. Of course, the better you know what you seek the
quicker it is.

Charlie

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