Re: Re: Multifile search
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- Subject: [mg91530] Re: [mg91497] Re: Multifile search
- From: "peter lindsay" <pl.0 at me.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:56:20 -0400 (EDT)
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you could try something like:
find /home "*.ehm" -print | xargs grep "hidden text here inside file ehm"
where .ehm is just a name I gave to my test invisible file, which contains
the text shown in quotes". This works in Linux certainly, but slight
variations will also work on the Mac [ unix ].
Peter
2008/8/24 ragfield <ragfield at gmail.com>
> On Aug 22, 2:20 am, Curtis Osterhoudt <c... at lanl.gov> wrote:
> > I like Google Desktop (use the linux version), but there's one th=
> ing which
> > is VERY annoying to me, and pretty much a show-stopper for searching for
> =
> my
> > Mathematica .m files (at least on linux): It ignores hidden ("dot")
> files=
> .
> > Google knows of this, and ignores it (or has decided it's not wor=
> th
> > changing for privacy reasons or something like that, but I haven't read a
> > good explanation). This isn't a huge issue for many things, but my main
> > Mathematica package files are in a /home/username/.Mathematica directory,
> > which I am loath to change. Therefore, Google Desktop never sees them.
> > Instead, I have to use Recoll and/or some of the newer strigi tools (for
> > linux).
>
> Perhaps you could use a symlink to make this work:
>
> mv .Mathematica Mathematica
> ln -s Mathematica .Mathematica
>
> -Rob
>
>
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- References:
- Re: Multifile search
- From: Albert Retey <awnl@gmx-topmail.de>
- Re: Multifile search