search tool (like copernic)

[Thomas Templin]

On Friday 10 June 2005 13:32, René L. Reingard wrote:
> Hi Ubuntu Users
>
> Do we have a search tool like Copernic (under Windows).
> This means a search engine that acts within your own Data like
> Google, that you can search for content of your files.
>
> Thanks for suggestions.

IMO better than beagle, at least it's stable, I would sugest swish++

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Description: Simple Document Indexing System for Humans: C++ version
 SWISH++ is a Unix-based file indexing and searching engine
 (typically used to index and search files on web sites).  It
 was based on SWISH-E although SWISH++ is a complete rewrite.
 SWISH++ was developed to circumvent author's difficulties with
 using the SWISH-E package.
 .
 SWISH++ features:
   * Lightning-fast indexing
   * Indexes META elements, ALT, and other attributes
   * Selectively not index text within HTML or XHTML elements
   * Intelligently index mail and news files
   * Index Unix manual page files
   * Apply filters to files on-the-fly prior to indexing
   * Index non-text files such as Microsoft Office documents
   * Modular indexing architecture
   * Index new files incrementally
   * Index remote web sites
   * Handles large collections of files
   * Lightning-fast searching
   * Optional word stemming (suffix stripping)
   * Ability to run as a search server
   * Easy-to-parse results format
   * Generously commented source code
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Origin: Ubuntu
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And yes, _it_is_ damned fast. IMO the fastest search tool you may 
find. (I don't know a faster one)

I'm using index++ and search++ from swish++ for my document folders 
(ca 3GByte). The index file is a bit huge (200MByte) but searching 
is lightning fast...
And you can index all kind of files not only text files. It will 
give interesting information even for JPEG, OGG, MP3, pdf and other 
files. To be honest up to now I didn't find a file format swish++ 
isn't able to cope with. :-)

As beagle you may use it via a web page (but which has to be set up 
first, eg. in your private public_html folder). You will find the 
needed information for this in the documentation.

But I use it via command line, yepp I'm a lazy one... 
(c:

Bye,
Thomas

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