Perhaps this would suit your needs? http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/
It can be configured to look through a large variety of files. I once thought to set it up to improve search in a mediawiki configuration, but I never got around to it. Regards, dov 2009/5/24 Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> > On Sunday 24 May 2009 14:55:43 Ehud Karni wrote: > > On Sun, 24 May 2009 02:01:43 Omer Zak wrote: > > > What search tool would you recommend for use today? > > > > > > My tradeoffs: > > > - Ability to retrieve all results of a search, rather than say the 100 > > > most recent ones. > > > - Plenty of hard disk space, so it need not be economized. > > > - After initial indexing, the daemon (or whatever) for handling new > > > material should not load the PC too much. > > > > What's wrong with `locate' (beside it is not being updated during the > > day ?). You can wrap it any way you want, it has regular expression > > search, and it is fast. I use it both in work (over 3.5M files in 69K > > directories) and at home (~900K files) and it works fine. > > A few problems with locate: > > 1. It doesn't do full-text search, and just searches according to the > filename. You can perform text search on its results using "xargs grep", > "xargs ack" or a similar tool, but this is slower than indexing. And if you > don't know the filename - you'll need to search through a lot of files. > > 2. It doesn't handle compressed or otherwise encoded filenames properly. It > isn't content-type sensitive. > > ---------------------- > > Beagle and its friends are better in those regards. I should note that I'm > not > using Beagle or whatever, because I didn't really find a need for them, and > because someone told me he once used a similar program for MS-Windows and > as a > result became disorganised and could not find his files afterwards. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > Understand what Open Source is - http://xrl.us/bjn82 > > God gave us two eyes and ten fingers so we will type five times as much as > we > read. > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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