Search Machine for Ubuntu machine

[Karl Larsen]

Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote:
>  I have Ubuntu 7.10 and would like to get an open source search engine 
> which I can use on this machine.  I would like to tell it what hard 
> drive and/or directory to search and tell it to search for a file and/or 
> contents of a file.  It would also be nice if it was written in perl or 
> java or java script or python or some other script or language but not 
> compiled.  Even a bash shell with bash commands. Also, I would like it 
> to be a server so clients from other machines (like XP) could access the 
> search  domain.  I suppose I could use a browser as client which gives 
> Apache a CGI script with the results back to the browser but I  am 
> hoping not to develop  this application but rather (at least initially) 
> to pick up a search application ready to go.
>
> Thanks -- Ted.
>
>
>
>   
    Open a Terminal and type locate filename


Karl


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