Re: I want to search my project source code

[Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>]

openfts.sf.net is tool for you. It has even example scripts for
indexing/searching file system.

Oleg

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Matthew Wilson wrote:

> I have a lot of code -- millions of lines at this point, written
> over the last 5 years.  Everything is in a bunch of nested folders.
>
> At least once a week, I want to find some code that uses a few modules,
> so I have to launch a find + grep at the top of the tree and then wait
> for it to finish.
>
> I wonder if I could store our source code in a postgresql table and
> then use full text searching to index.  Then I hope I could run a query
> where I ask for all files that use modules X, Y, and Z.
>
> I'm looking for something sort of like the locate utility, except that
> instead of building a quickly-searchable list of file names, I want to
> be able to search file contents also.
>
>
> Matt
>
>
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	Regards,
		Oleg
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