RE: Tahiti's down...
From: Yong Huang <yong321_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:55:19 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <28497.85666.qm_at_web80605.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
> grep -R '<search term>' *.pdf
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:55:19 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <28497.85666.qm_at_web80605.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
> grep -R '<search term>' *.pdf
That won't work. One reason I don't like PDF is that you can't do grep 'clear text' on it. You have to use a tool such as pdftotext then grep its output.
As to desktop search program, none is perfect. Microsoft Desktop Search insists on indexing Outlook mails, even if I turn it off. Google Desktop has no rule order for inclusion/exclusion so to only index c:\mydocs, you have to exclude all other folders at C:. Copernic only allows you to use for free at home. Both Google and Copernic have trouble indexing some files in subfolder with space in filenames.
Yong Huang
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