on linux you got find and grep... which could take a long time (since no indexing is available for grep) but work every time and support regular expressions... Alan.- On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Rich Jesse <rjoralist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > Hey John, > > >> I've got it, just need see how best to search locally on a linux > desktop. > > > > I don't usually promote Micro$oft, but in my case, I have used MS > > Desktop Search to effectively index all my docs. This engine used to > > be the old from SysInternals so it is > > And it works on Linux??? > > Rich > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >