From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anindya Mozumdar Subject: Re: Fwd: Google desktop search Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:59:09 +0530 Message-ID: <20050310032909.GA7671@cmi.ac.in> References: <32bf3a72050309062675a020d9@mail.gmail.com> <32bf3a7205030907012c24e5b8@mail.gmail.com> <5.2.1.1.0.20050309160339.00c2d110@127.0.0.1> <32bf3a7205030908154debaf80@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <32bf3a7205030908154debaf80@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: James Grimwood Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Hi, The Beagle project was aiming at something like this - including searching files, mails, etc. I am not sure whether they have made any releases or not. Please Google to find out. Anindya. On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:15:05PM +0000, James Grimwood wrote: > On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:03:54 +0000, Carl wrote: > > At 15:01 09/03/2005 +0000, James Grimwood wrote: > > >Does anyone know if there's anything similar that works in Linux? > > > > > >I've got loads of documents on my machine and I'd like to search them > > >for text without having to wait ages for find and grep to scan through > > >each directory. > > > man slocate > > Yep, that lets me find files. Doesn't let me find text inside them though... > > -- > http://www.piku.org.uk - Outdoor Photos: http://www.piku.co.uk > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html