From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 18 20:56:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBDC9106566B for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:56:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A11678FC17 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:56:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o5IKuWmP006219 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:56:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:56:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:56:31 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20100618205629.GA6931@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. Cc: Subject: utility to all ALL strings? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:56:33 -0000 this goes back >> a few years, but is there, somewhere in ports, a utility that goes thru the entire system and collects either all file names or all strings---i do not think this operated on binaries [:-)]--- and hashed and compressed everything? i remember thinking about it, but because back then my fastest computer was 500MHz , i thought better =not= to do it. now that i spend so much time hunting for stuuff, i think i could cron this utility. --If it wasn't a figment of my imagination! gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org 99 44/100% Guaranteed Novel