<div dir="ltr">Perhaps this would suit your needs?<br><br><span class="mG"> </span><span class="mG"> </span><a href="http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/">http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/</a><br><br>It can be configured to look through a large variety of files. I once thought to set it up to improve search in a mediawiki configuration, but I never got around to it.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>dov<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/24 Shlomi Fish <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shlomif@iglu.org.il">shlomif@iglu.org.il</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sunday 24 May 2009 14:55:43 Ehud Karni wrote:<br>
> On Sun, 24 May 2009 02:01:43 Omer Zak wrote:<br>
> > What search tool would you recommend for use today?<br>
> ><br>
> > My tradeoffs:<br>
> > - Ability to retrieve all results of a search, rather than say the 100<br>
> > most recent ones.<br>
> > - Plenty of hard disk space, so it need not be economized.<br>
> > - After initial indexing, the daemon (or whatever) for handling new<br>
> > material should not load the PC too much.<br>
><br>
> What's wrong with `locate' (beside it is not being updated during the<br>
> day ?). You can wrap it any way you want, it has regular expression<br>
> search, and it is fast. I use it both in work (over 3.5M files in 69K<br>
> directories) and at home (~900K files) and it works fine.<br>
<br>
</div>A few problems with locate:<br>
<br>
1. It doesn't do full-text search, and just searches according to the<br>
filename. You can perform text search on its results using "xargs grep",<br>
"xargs ack" or a similar tool, but this is slower than indexing. And if you<br>
don't know the filename - you'll need to search through a lot of files.<br>
<br>
2. It doesn't handle compressed or otherwise encoded filenames properly. It<br>
isn't content-type sensitive.<br>
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Beagle and its friends are better in those regards. I should note that I'm not<br>
using Beagle or whatever, because I didn't really find a need for them, and<br>
because someone told me he once used a similar program for MS-Windows and as a<br>
result became disorganised and could not find his files afterwards.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Shlomi Fish<br>
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