text indexing on Linux?

[Ben Walton]

> I know of "updatedb" and "locate", but they index only filenames, not
> the content.  For my need, "grep" is still faster than any SQL solution,
> but I'm curious as to what is the correct approach.

I don't know if correct is the right word in this case as "working"
could imply "correctness."

You could look at a command line interface to a xapian database
though.  It's a good indexing/search library.  I'm not sure if there
is anything that would work off the shelf or if you'd need to hack
something up with ruby/python though.  Also, if the number of files is
small, grep is likely adequate anyway.

Thanks
-Ben
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