hey all, I'm hoping that the following exists (so I don't have to make it).
I'm looking for a utility that could be used to study (for quick matching) a large set of files and put them in a searchable format (think locate or fulltext search in mysql). Then I would like to be able to query that matching database, and display formatted output similar or equivalent to grep output. With a good matching algorithm, I'd hope to get speedups orders of magnitude faster than vanilla grep, assuming that the right algorithm was chosen. Anyways, does this exist? Best case is if it was already in ordinary grep, but I don't see it on a cursory examination of the grep source code.. Thanks much, Ed
