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- From: boone@convex.cl.msu.edu (Dennis Boone)
- Subject: Re: Waisindex indexing the index.* files
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.182623.2632@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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- Organization: Michigan State University, East Lansing
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 18:26:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.064002.9696@news2.cis.umn.edu> lindner@mudhoney.micro.umn.edu (Paul Lindner) writes:
- >Okay, here's whatcha do:
- >
- >Say you have a directory /home/foo, you store your indexes in
- >/home/foo/.index.
- >
- >That's cool, instead of doing this:
- >
- >waisindex -r /home/foo
- >
- >do this:
- >
- >waisindex -r /home/foo/*
- >
- >Most shells don't expand dot files when you give it a asterick to chew
- >on.
-
- I recently discovered one of my indices wasn't rebuilding because the *
- expanded to over-many filenames. You'd think WAIS would be smart enough
- not to index its own files. Lose lose.
-
- Dennis
- --
- = There is no monopoly on common sense, on either side of the political fence =
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