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by Noumenon72 1596 days ago
Why not grep? Are you saying you want full text search with like, stemming and result ranking?

If I can piggyback on your question, my notes are in Word files and I sure wish I could grep those. I bet none of the answers at https://superuser.com/questions/70343/grep-in-microsoft-word work any more because Microsoft will keep changing the file format.

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Because grep is not a "full text search tool".

Full text search [1] is different from regular expression search.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-text_search