[openbeos] Re: OpenBFS Progress.

On 2/19/02 1:03 AM, "Graham Gilmore" <grahamg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>> And, we support querying attributes that don't have indices.
>> 
>> Now I have two feature requests:
>> * querying files under a certain folder (+ sub folders)
>> * searching in the file data
>> 
>> This would make "grep" obsolete.
>> 
>> - Michael
> 
> It would take a lot more than being able to search file data in a Query
> to make grep obsolete :-)  One (and there are others) of the best
> features of grep is that it can operate with standard-in and
> standard-out, letting you pipe input into it and out of it to make
> complex tool chains in shell commands.

And something else just occurred to me. Doesn't OpenTracker's query panel
handle how most queries work? At least for the first request, wouldn't that
involve some modifications to OT?

-Henry

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