Search Engine for files, folders -- recursive

[Richard Gaskin]

Sivakatirswami wrote:

> Has anyone already written a "search engine"  in MC that prompts the user to
> select a volume or folder and a keyword (s) then searches "down" for the
> keyword (s) and returns a list with the file paths for all hits? I am
> thinking MC has to be faster than either Sherlock or BBEdit multi-file
> search (the latter being very slow)
> 
> I can write all the interface part of it, but the recursive search "down" is
> the tricky part.

See this quickie util at:
<ftp://ftp.fourthwoorld.com/MetaCard/4wSearch.mc.sit>

Yes, MC is much faster than Schleplock, and there's no need for indexing.

Like most of the stuff there, this gadget is very much a work in progress.
But hopefull some of it will be useful.

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 Richard Gaskin 
 Fourth World Media Corporation
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