Faster grepping through lots of bulky text files

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Faster grepping through lots of bulky text files
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Sounds like you need a desktop search engine.

For Linux look here. I have used Recoll, it was generally good. But it sometimes didn’t recognise text files correctly.

For Windows I recommend X1, it is excellent and comes with a free trial period.

by bryan from http://superuser.com/questions/415798