Re: Is there an indexing tool in linux that can help quickly search the contents of all my files?

2009-08-30 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 30 August 2009 07:07:11 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: On windows machines, there is google desktop which searchs the files contents. Mac has spotlight which also search the file contents in a mac machine. In linux, I know the command 'locate' which search

Re: Is there an indexing tool in linux that can help quickly search the contents of all my files?

2009-08-30 Thread josé Santos
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 03:18:51AM +0100, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:20:49 -0500 Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On windows machines, there is google desktop which searchs the files contents. Mac has spotlight which also search the file contents in a mac machine.

Re: Is there an indexing tool in linux that can help quickly search the contents of all my files?

2009-08-30 Thread John Magolske
* Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com [090829 17:27]: In linux, I know the command 'locate' which search all the filenames. But I am wondering if there is a tool that can search file contents. I know that the combination of 'find' and 'grep' can search the contents, but it is slow. Can somebody let

Is there an indexing tool in linux that can help quickly search the contents of all my files?

2009-08-29 Thread Peng Yu
Hi, On windows machines, there is google desktop which searchs the files contents. Mac has spotlight which also search the file contents in a mac machine. In linux, I know the command 'locate' which search all the filenames. But I am wondering if there is a tool that can search file contents. I

RE: Is there an indexing tool in linux that can help quickly search the contents of all my files?

2009-08-29 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Peng Yu [mailto:pengyu...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 5:21 PM Hi, On windows machines, there is google desktop which searchs the files contents. Mac has spotlight which also search the file contents in a mac machine. In linux, I know the command 'locate' which

RE: Is there an indexing tool in linux that can help quickly search the contents of all my files?

2009-08-29 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Kevin Ross [mailto:ke...@familyross.net] Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 5:25 PM If you like Google Desktop, there's a Linux version. http://desktop.google.com/linux/index.html Within Debain, there's also beagle and doodle. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Is there an indexing tool in linux that can help quickly search the contents of all my files?

2009-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-29 19:25, Kevin Ross wrote: From: Peng Yu [mailto:pengyu...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 5:21 PM Hi, On windows machines, there is google desktop which searchs the files contents. Mac has spotlight which also search the file contents in a mac machine. In linux, I

Re: Is there an indexing tool in linux that can help quickly search the contents of all my files?

2009-08-29 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:20:49 -0500 Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On windows machines, there is google desktop which searchs the files contents. Mac has spotlight which also search the file contents in a mac machine. In linux, I know the command 'locate' which search all the