From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Grimwood Subject: Re: Fwd: Google desktop search Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:15:05 +0000 Message-ID: <32bf3a7205030908154debaf80@mail.gmail.com> References: <32bf3a72050309062675a020d9@mail.gmail.com> <32bf3a7205030907012c24e5b8@mail.gmail.com> <5.2.1.1.0.20050309160339.00c2d110@127.0.0.1> Reply-To: James Grimwood Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20050309160339.00c2d110@127.0.0.1> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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