Glimpse (which stands for GLobal IMPlicit SEarch) is a UNIX indexing and query system that allows you to search through a large set of files very quickly.If the search pattern is reasonably uncommon,then all matches will be reported in a few seconds even if the indexed files total 500MB or more. Glimpse supports most of agrep's options (agrep is our powerful version of grep) including approximate matching (e.g.,finding misspelled words), Boolean queries,and even some limited forms of regular expressions. It is used in the same way,except that you don't have to specify file names. So, if you are looking for a needle anywhere in your file system, all you have to do is say #glimpse needle and all lines containing needle will appear preceded by the file name. To use glimpse you first need to index your files with glimpseindex. For example, #glimpseindex -o ~ will index everything at or below your home directory.See man glimpseindex for more details.
Created attachment 147 [details] glimpse-4.15.ebuild (New Package)
Checked into cvs as app-misc/glimpse... Thank you for the ebuild! :)