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Open source command line tools for indexing a large number of text files

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Mar 15, 20264552 views
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I'm looking for any open source command line tool or tools which will allow me to index and search a large number of plain text files. Approximate search would be a plus. The tool only needs to print the files that match, although some match context would be useful. A GUI tool isn't useful for my a…

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The best thing you could do is feed the text files into a MySQL database and use its FullText matching system. This will give very rapid searches with rankings on how well the results match with the search. Interfacing a MySQL database with other sy…

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