tony.chamberlain at lemko.com schrieb: > I am looking for something similar to the windows SEARCH FILES comman > with the option "files containing ..." (that is where I can specify a > string and it will find all files containing that string -- not just having > the string as part of the name but actually containing it in the text). > > Is there some way to do this? > > You could use "glimpse" for that. Or google desktop ;-) The problem is that preparing the index takes a lot of time. And more than 95 time out of 100, you don't need it anyway. (On a server, because man -k and locate already do a good job of making the relevant stuff available to you quickly). Rainer