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 -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 *********************************************** That government is best which governs least.....Henry David Thoreau *********************************************** Debian GNU/Linux - just the best way to create magic ----------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150309184730.2f8a3508@taogypsy