OT: ht://Dig
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sat May 6 07:44:10 UTC 2006
CodeHeads:
> OK, thanks Tim, I guess I can read the man page and use google. :)
Sorry I wasn't more direct, but it's ages since I set mine going, and
ages since I experimented with it.
There are HTML docs for it installed on your system, so there's more
than a "man" page. I found some of their scripts to be broken, though.
You'll find out that some (all?) of the commands they detail are
actually scripts. I ended up writing my own to suit my needs.
The biggest bugs I found were down to it badly handling things like
" or UTF-8 characters. They don't get used as they're supposed to
be.
e.g. Despite documentation about improvements, " will get converted
to " and you'll see search results returned like this in the
page: Description: "something was said
Instead of: Description: "something was said
And you'll see the usual effects of UTF-8 text when it's handled by
something that doesn't know how to parse it.
Those bugs are years old by now, and not fixed yet. If I were using
htdig for anything more than in-house searching, I'd swap to using
something else.
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