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I am working on a project where we would like to have build a web interface that gives the user the ability to "Google" files in a directory in a remote machine.

For example, the user would type a string in a box, and then the system would find all files that contain that string and present them in the browser. The system would then give the user the ability click on any of the files to open them/display them in the browser.

We want to avoid reinventing the wheel if possible, but don't really know where to start (none of us in the team have much experience building websites). What software packages, libraries or tools exist that can help us get this done?

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closed as not a real question by John Conde Oct 15 '12 at 16:47

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