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