[clue-tech] Desktop search for Linux

[Tom Poindexter]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:51:12AM -0600, Jeffrey Brown wrote:
> Here's an option:
> 
> http://beaglewiki.org/Main_Page
> 
> >>> kevincu at orci.com 6/13/2005 10:02:42 PM >>>
> Anyone know of something similar to this:
> 
> http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/ 
> 
> (or Mac's Spotlight) that can be used by a user other than using CLI?

Not knowing exactly Spotlight's functionality, the 'Unix' way to do file
system indexing and searching is Glimpse.  The idea for Glimpse is to run
a the indexing program off-hours, then search with the glimpse command line
tool.

A small tutorial is at: http://www.boulderlabs.com/pub/14.glimpse

The 3.6 version (under BSD license) is at: 
    http://ftp.rge.com/pub/database/glimpse/

while the latest 4.x version (under commercial license but free for 
non-commercial use) is at:
    http://webglimpse.net/


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Tom Poindexter
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