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.

       -l file
              read a file and get list of paths of files to register. If `-'
              is specified, the standard input is read.

       -wmax num
              specify the max number of words to be stored in the document
              database.

       -tsuf sufs
              specify suffixes of plain text files in comma separated format.
              The default is `-tsuf .txt,.text'.

       -hsuf sufs
              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@users.sourceforge.net>.

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



Man Page                          2005-05-23                          ODIDX(1)
