On Sep 22, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote: > I have a large number of files that live on offline media (data DVD), > and it's getting difficult to keep track of which dvd (out of 100+ > disks currently) the file I want is on. > > Does anyone have any suggestions for creating a searchable database > where I could enter a substring of a filename and have the database > return full filenames and the correct disk. > > I know this situation has occurred before and been solved by others, > but I can't find any descriptions on how such a system would be > organized. > > Anyone have any pointers for me? How about grep and a flat text file? Disk Filename You could gzip the text file, and gzcat filename | grep "foo" --- Eric Crist