[clue-tech] Desktop search for Linux

[Dave Price]

Very cool - there is a debian (sarge) package for glimpse too.

On 6/14/05, Tom Poindexter <tpoindex at nyx.net> wrote:
> 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/

aloha,
dave