[clue] [TECH] Searching content using FTP

[chris fedde]

There are FUSE filesystems like curlftpfs that give you filesystem
like access to FTP remote stores.  If you have SFTP access then you
can use sshfs which has slightly less overhead.
Also both Emacs and vim have remote editing capabilities which include search.
Keep in mind though that the whole file subtree being searched needs
to be fetched to a local cache and then searched.    Overall it might
be faster to use an FTP client to make a local mirror of the remote
store and search that.

Just my thoughts.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:23 AM, YES NOPE9 <yes at nope9.com> wrote:
> I have access to a number of files on aserver using FTP.
> Is there an app that will search each file for specific content ( either on the server or by fetching the file and searching )  .... and make a list of files containing the search string ?
>
> gus in denver   99gus
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