bug#41687: regex search for indexed files

2020-06-06 Thread Assaf Gordon
tag 41687 notabug close 41687 stop Hello, On 2020-06-03 8:27 a.m., Peng Yu wrote: grep can do regex search but it needs to scan each file. When the number of files are large, it can be slow. Is there an alternative tool that can do regex search in the indexed files (including .docx .pdf and ot

bug#41687: regex search for indexed files

2020-06-03 Thread Peng Yu
Hi, grep can do regex search but it needs to scan each file. When the number of files are large, it can be slow. Is there an alternative tool that can do regex search in the indexed files (including .docx .pdf and other commonly used file formats that can be converted to text) so that the search