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Re:Dropbox Project Infinite by pbreit on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @02:52PM (#11574538)
Why would it do that? Can't it just be added to the search index and then "archived"?
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Re:Dropbox Project Infinite by eropple on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @03:08PM (#11574653)
grep doesn't have a search index.
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Re:Dropbox Project Infinite by JoBrad on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @07:07PM (#11576504)
But wouldn't you expect a grep to download the files so they could be searched, as opposed to a locate or find, which I wouldn't expect to do that.
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Re:Dropbox Project Infinite by pbreit on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @10:18PM (#11586190)
I thought I was inquiring about Dropbox, not grep.
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