Is there in Linux an application that searches inside groups of files for a text fragmentsupplied by the user – similar to the indexing service in windows?
Thanks
Swerdna
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Um… ‘grep’ comes to mind quickly, possibly ‘find’ too though ‘grep’
was made for the task. Beagle is the GUI version of the same, though
it’s a bit intensive at times and indexes before you search, but when
it’s working and not using a lot of your system resources the search is
pretty neat… covers a million file formats, etc.
Good luck.
swerdna wrote:
> Is there in Linux an application that searches inside groups of files
> for a text fragmentsupplied by the user – similar to the indexing
> service in windows?
>
> Thanks
> Swerdna
>
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Yay grep! I hate Beagle on old machines. Inside a directory where you wish to find the text string, do this:
grep "text fragment" ./*.html
This will find “text fragment” in every file in the current directory which ends in “.html”.
Thanks guys – looking into it.
I deleted Beagle approx 18 months ago to free up the resources, but I’ll try it again. Also, will check out grep.