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Re: Interesting utilities

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On 2011-10-15, jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> wrote:
> Le 15/10/11 06:35, Roberto Waltman a écrit :
>> jacob navia  wrote:
>>> I am developing in the Mac OS X (10.7) system, and it has some nice
>>> features that I hadn't seen in any windows/unix system.
>>>
>>> mdfind some-identifier ...
>>> but it comes back in seconds instead of hours like grep.
>>
>> That probably means that it looks into a keyword database, built by
>> indexing the files in the background, over many hours instead of
>> seconds.
>> And yes, the same functionality is available under Linux and Windows.
>
> Sorry but I have never even heard about something like that under
> windows/linux.
> Maybe you have an example?

http://freshmeat.net/search?q=file+indexing&submit=Search

45 hits, some of them relevant-looking.

http://freshmeat.net/search?q=file+search&submit=Search

251 hits.

Man, you really are still a goof, sorry to say.

Windows has dynamic file indexing since Vista, if not before.

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Interesting utilities jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-10-11 11:57 +0200
  Re: Interesting utilities Roberto Waltman <usenet@rwaltman.com> - 2011-10-15 00:35 -0400
    Re: Interesting utilities jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-10-15 13:06 +0200
      Re: Interesting utilities Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-10-15 10:26 -0700
      [OT] Interesting utilities Roberto Waltman <usenet@rwaltman.com> - 2011-10-15 16:14 -0400
      Re: Interesting utilities Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-10-16 01:24 +0000
        Re: Interesting utilities jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-10-16 09:45 +0200
        Re: Interesting utilities jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-10-16 14:05 +0200
          Re: Interesting utilities jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-10-16 14:39 +0200
            Re: Interesting utilities Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-10-17 16:38 +0000
  Re: Interesting utilities Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-10-16 01:18 +0000
    Re: Interesting utilities Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-10-16 14:34 +1300
  Re: Interesting utilities XeCycle <xecycle@gmail.com> - 2011-10-16 10:42 +0800
    Re: Interesting utilities Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-10-16 03:53 +0000
      Re: Interesting utilities XeCycle <xecycle@gmail.com> - 2011-10-16 21:25 +0800

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