Indexed search tool for file content - txt, pdf, doc, spreadsheets, etc?
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Sep 14 19:10:02 UTC 2010
On 09/14/2010 10:57 AM, rikona wrote:
> What indexed search tool(s) are available for Ubuntu? I'd like to be
> able to search about 50-100 gigs of file content, perhaps as many as
> 500,000 files, including some quite large single files, with as many
> file types as possible being indexed. Also would like to do moderately
> sophisticated searches [nested and/or, quoted strings, proximity
> search, etc] if possible. This would be needed to reduce the number of
> hits with lots of info to search. I've used Beagle in the past and it
> worked fairly well, and also recoll. Is Beagle available, or is there
> a better/alternative search tool?
I use recoll.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/recoll
Beagle and Tracker suck up too many resources on my machines.
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