database retrieval software....

[Harry Mangalam]

While I personally prefer the elegant frustrations of the
grep/agrep/regex world,

http://discovery.altavista.com/

may provide what you're looking for in a more friendly interface. 
Supposed to provide an altavista-like experience for searching your own
files as well as networked resources, sort of like what 'Sherlock'
provides for the Mac.

YMMV
-- 
Cheers,
Harry

Harry J Mangalam, Biological Chemistry
Rm 158, MedSciC, College Of Medicine, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697
(949) 824 4824[vox], (949) 824 2688[fax], 
mangalam at uci.edu || mangalam at home.com 
http://hornet.bio.uci.edu/~hjm/

jayakumar wrote:

>     Do any one of you know of any softwares, which can search through all
> the text files in a folder for a particular term or a collection of terms
> and then tell you which all files contain them.