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ODIDX(1) Quick Database Manager ODIDX(1)

NAME

odidx - indexer of document files

SYNOPSIS

odidx register [-l file] [-wmax num] [-tsuf sufs] [-hsuf sufs] name[dir]
odidx relate name
odidx purge name

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the odidx commands.

The command odidx is a utility for indexing files on the local file system. This command is useful for a full-text search system of a Web site. Supported file format are plain text and HTML. Supported character encoding are US-ASCII and ISO-8859-1. The URI of each document is specified with the path of its file. Attributes named as title and date are given to each documents. When a document is already existing in the database, it is registered if its last modification time is newer, or it is ignored. Modification times are stored in the sub database `_mtime' in the main database directory. Score information are stored in the sub database `_score' in the main database directory. This command is used in the above format. name specifies a database name. dir specifies a directory name.

OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the file:///usr/share/doc/qdbm-doc/spex.html#odeumcli.

read a file and get list of paths of files to register. If `-' is specified, the standard input is read.
specify the max number of words to be stored in the document database.
specify suffixes of plain text files in comma separated format. The default is `-tsuf .txt,.text'.
specify suffixes of HTML files in comma separated format. The default is `-hsuf .html,.htm'.

EXAMPLES

For example, to register files which are under `/home/mikio' and whose suffix are `.txt', `.c', or `.h', perform the following command.
odidx register -tsuf ".txt,.c,.h" -hsuf "" casket /home/mikio

Thus, to retrieve documents which include `unix' and `posix' and show the top 8 terms, perform the following command.
odmgr search -max 8 -h casket "unix posix"

SEE ALSO

qdbm(3), odmgr(1), odeum(3), odopen(3).

AUTHOR

QDBM was written by Mikio Hirabayashi <mikio@fallabs.com>.

This manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

2005-05-23 Man Page