Searchmonkey

A fast real-time search engine for displaying regular expression matches (both file name and content) across multiple directories. Written in Gtk2 it is highly...

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BSD

A fast realtime search engine for displaying regular expression matches (both file name and content) across multiple directories.

Written in Gtk2 it is highly portable, and as well as running on Linux, ports are available on FreeBSD, or even Windows and MacOS.

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