in reply to accessing files
I would look at swish-e. It's an extemely fast and flexible tool for indexing and searching various kinds of documents (html, xml, text, pdf, doc, etc) and has a nice Perl interface.
-- More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk. -- Bruce Schneier
-- More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk. -- Bruce Schneier
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