zeiden@ai.cs.wisc.edu (Matthew Zeidenberg) (05/03/91)
I find the utility "On Location" on my Mac very handy. Not only does it find all the files on my hard disk that contain a string in their name, but it also quickly finds all the files that contain a string in their text. It updates an index in the background, so is very fast. The UNIX utility "find" provides some of this functionality, but lacks the text searching capability, and one usually ends up using grep "word" * or some such. I was wondering if anybody knows of an On Location equivalent for UNIX. If not, I would consider writing one, probably in Perl, using Perl's abilities to access the shell and databases easily. Or does someone else want to volunteer? Please respond via e-mail: I will summarize for the net, as I rarely read this group. -- * Matt Zeidenberg 608-257-3933(h) * * zeiden@cs.wisc.edu 608-262-5786(w) * * 939 E. Gorham St. Madison WI 53703 *