<div dir="ltr">Im pretty sure google desktop would be the closest to what hes looking for, i think it even does look through text files, the only thing i dont know would be setting it up throughout a local lan but im sure it could be done.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Carl Friis-Hansen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ubuntuuser@carl-fh.com">ubuntuuser@carl-fh.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Karl Larsen wrote:<br>
> Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote:<br>
>> I have Ubuntu 7.10 and would like to get an open source search engine<br>
>> which I can use on this machine. I would like to tell it what hard<br>
>> drive and/or directory to search and tell it to search for a file and/or<br>
>> contents of a file. It would also be nice if it was written in perl or<br>
>> java or java script or python or some other script or language but not<br>
>> compiled. Even a bash shell with bash commands. Also, I would like it<br>
>> to be a server so clients from other machines (like XP) could access the<br>
>> search domain. I suppose I could use a browser as client which gives<br>
>> Apache a CGI script with the results back to the browser but I am<br>
>> hoping not to develop this application but rather (at least initially)<br>
>> to pick up a search application ready to go.<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks -- Ted.<br>
>><br>
> Open a Terminal and type locate filename<br>
><br>
> Karl<br>
<br>
</div>That's a possibility, but the original poster wanted some sort of search<br>
engine that is accessible from other computers on the network using web<br>
browser. Also, locate alone will not work, because he wants to find<br>
certain text within the found files.<br>
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