Index a set of files to search their text quickly?

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Published on 2010-03-15T22:45:35Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 22:50 UTC
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I have a unique need: I am frequently searching a large set of text files for a keyword.

Right now, I open up Notepad++ and use the "Find in files" feature. It works just fine, but with the amount of files, each search takes several minutes to complete.

Is there a good program more suited for this purpose, perhaps that indexes a set of files and then lets you search the set repeatedly and very quickly? It would greatly speed up my workflow.

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Index a set of files to search their text quickly?

Posted by Ricket on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Ricket
Published on 2010-03-15T22:34:51Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 22:39 UTC
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I have a unique need: I am frequently searching a large set of text files for a keyword.

Right now, I open up Notepad++ and use the "Find in files" feature. It works just fine, but with the amount of files, each search takes several minutes to complete.

Is there a good program more suited for this purpose, perhaps that indexes a set of files and then lets you search the set repeatedly and very quickly? It would greatly speed up my workflow.

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