INSTALATION
The executable files cindex and cfind will hopefully just work on your box. If they don't then you need to install the OCaml compiler form http://caml.inria.fr/ and then do
make nc
USAGE
The usage is similar to that of the command locate. First you need to setup the index by running:
cindex
Be warned that this may take several minutes to complete since your files are scanned and the words are organized in a structure in which it is easy to do lookups. This step uses "locate" so you may want to update its database before running cindex by running, as root:
updatedb
NOTE: If you don't know what updatedb is then chances are that your system administrator has already taken care for it to be run at regular intervals so you don't need to worry.
The result of this step is stored in your home directory in the files:
~/.dictionary.sts
~/.filebase.sts
If you want to find out more about their content take a look at sts.pdf.
The indexed files are:
*.txt text files *.tex TeX files
More will come soon.
Now you are ready to search. If you want to find the files that contain the word "linux" then execute:
cfind linux
If you want to find files that contain both "linux" and "cfind" then execute:
cfind linux cfind
Note that results are ordered by their relevance.