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Christoph Hormann wrote:
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> Ron Parker wrote:
> >
> > On 13 Jun 2001 16:51:59 -0400, Ron Parker wrote:
> > >What this says is that I searched my entire archive of off-topic (26515
> > >articles) in a second or so. That includes subjects, authors, bodies,
> > >and everything else. Surprisingly, nobody has mentioned the word
> > >'qwyjibo' there yet.
> >
> > Oh, yeah, this is a Pentium 200 with 96M of memory and a Quantum Bigfoot
> > hard drive. The search would go more quickly on a machine with some
> > horsepower.
> >
>
> But you are using an index that was generated before, a sequential search
> through all files would take much longer even on a faster machine.
I doubt it... having all messages as text files with their names as the subject,
I could perform a pattern search through the whole text and it would give me
back the files that got that pattern but also the lines, having 10000 files of a
few kilo bytes would probably take a few seconds, 1-5 mins max...
time foreach f (`\ls News/*`)
> grep -n "My topic" $f
Although, this would be using the News directory of my system, but I use
netscape and therefore I can't search through files... I'm thinking on using
some kind of fetchmail and fetchnews and use my plain old text programs such as
Emacs!
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