On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Chris Palmer <ch...@noncombatant.org> wrote: > Kurt H Maier writes: > >> > We need a desktop text indexing system that sucks less. >> >> grep > > First of all, I had never heard of this program. It is so great! Wow! Thanks > for the suggestion! In 45 minutes when my query has completed, I'll buy you > a beer. I assume you prefer Coors Lite?
it's not my fault you're bad at organizing your data if you think you need a 'desktop text indexing system', chances are you are doing something wrong > Second, the newly-discovered grep program is horrible bloatware. 78KB on my > system (the stali version will be larger due to static linking), when a > simple awk script would suffice for the same purpose? Man, the people > writing this new bleeding-edge software sure have no conception of the > beauty of simplicity that reigned in the old days. if you could actually write simple awk scripts you wouldn't need a 'desktop text indexing system' -- # Kurt H Maier
