text indexing on Linux?

[Ted]

are the contents basically completely random dictionary words, i.e. a 
set of "words" that can be from 600k+ words?
Or is the contents a small subset of "words".
Also , how many files are you talking about?

-tl

On 07/05/2012 12:31 PM, William Park wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Suppose all your files are text files and contain 10 words max.  What
> program would you use to index them based on contents?  That is, given a
> set of words, it has to return the name of files that contain those
> words.
>
> 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.

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