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Glimpse (which stands for GLobal IMPlicit SEarch) is an indexing and
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query system that allows you to search through all your files very
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quickly. For example, finding 296 lines containing 'whitehouse' in 8750
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files occupying 104MB took 6 seconds on a SUN Sparc 5.
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Glimpse supports most of agrep's options (agrep is our powerful version
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of grep) including approximate matching (e.g., finding mis- spelled
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words), Boolean queries, and even some limited forms of regular
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expressions. It is used in the same way, except that you don't have to
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specify file names. So, if you are looking for a needle anywhere in your
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file system, all you have to do is say glimpse needle and all lines
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containing needle will appear preceded by the file name.
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