Brad Miele scribbled on 5/19/05 8:00 AM:

> does the file that I am telling the index to delete actually have to
> exist? or am i basically just giving swish-e the name of the file in
> question? and, can i wildcard the name of the files to be deleted, like
> -r hangover*.html

no, the file need not exist, unless you are using the FileSystem method:

karpet@cartermac 137% cat foo.txt
foobar
karpet@cartermac 138% cat c
IndexContents TXT* .txt
karpet@cartermac 139% ~/swish/bin/swish-e -i foo.txt -c c
Indexing Data Source: "File-System"
Indexing "foo.txt"
..
1 file indexed.  7 total bytes.  1 total words.
..
karpet@cartermac 141% ~/swish/bin/swish-e -w foobar
..
1000 foo.txt "foo.txt" 7
.
karpet@cartermac 142% rm foo.txt
karpet@cartermac 143% ~/swish/bin/swish-e -i foo.txt -c c -r
Indexing Data Source: "File-System"
Indexing "foo.txt"
..
Warning: Invalid path 'foo.txt': No such file or directory
..
karpet@cartermac 144% ~/swish/bin/swish-e -w foobar
..
1000 foo.txt "foo.txt" 7
.

If using -S prog, the file name can be whatever you want; Swish-e doesn't care 
if it "exists" or not, since you give swish-e all the info it wants.



and finally, wildcards are interpreted by the shell, not swish-e. So if:

karpet@cartermac 145% touch hangover_bad.html
karpet@cartermac 146% touch hangover_good.html
karpet@cartermac 147% ls -1 hangover*html
hangover_bad.html
hangover_good.html
karpet@cartermac 148%

swish-e would accept -i hangover*html. But it would be matched against the 
filesystem, so it would not remove files that didn't exist on the filesystem.


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