Search Machine for Ubuntu machine

[Mumia W.]

On 08/28/2008 07:51 PM, 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. [...]

Although you said that you didn't want something that was compiled, I'll 
suggest "htdig" anyway. Htdig is mostly compiled, but part of it is a 
script.