A search engine capable of locating, indexing and searching from within the contents of plain text files inside a Unix-like operating system.
kzimmermann
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README.md
unixsearch is a Windows-like search engine capable of locating, indexing and searching from within the contents of plain text files inside a Unix-like operating system.
Motivation
Unix and Linux have long been criticised by desktop users for not having a readily available and robust file searching funcionality.
Although some simple command-line utilities (find, locate) and even mature GUI applications such as catfish have been developed, they lack the capability of searching within a file.
This has led me to feel that a better search engine had to be developed.
Features
- Capable of crawling all the accessible filesystem according to the user's permission (entire filesystem if root).
- Capable of index-searching (searching the content of files besides their names) non-binary files such as xml, html, txt, csv, source code and configuration files.
- Capable of on-the-spot reindexing of files.