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6 htfuzzy - fuzzy command-line search utility for the ht://Dig search
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10 htfuzzy [-c configfile] [-v] algorithm [options]
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13 Description to follow here
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16 -c configfile
17 Use the specified configfile instead of the default.
18 -v Verbose mode , -vvv
20 etc ). Specifying more than two v's is probably only useful for
21 debugging purposes.
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24 Different algoritms are supported for searching:
25 soundex Creates a slightly modified soundex key database. Dif‐
26 ferences with the standard soundex algorithm are: Keys are 6
27 digits and the first letter is also encoded. metaphone
28 Creates a metaphone key database. This algorithm is more spe‐
29 cific to English, but will get fewer "weird" matches than
30 the soundex algorithm.
31 accents (No description of the algorithm at the moment)
33 endings Creates two databases which can be used to match
35 common word endings. The creation of these databases requires a
36 list of affix rules and a dictionary which uses those affix
37 rules. The format of the affix rules and dictionary files are
38 the ones used by the ispell program. Included with the distribu‐
39 tion are the affix rules for English and a fairly small English
40 dictionary. Other languages can be supported by getting the
41 appropriate affix rules and dictionaries. These are available
42 for many languages; check the ispell distribu- tion for more
43 details.
44 synonyms Creates a database of synonyms for words. It reads a
46 text database of synonyms and creates a database that htsearch
47 can then use. Each line of the text database consists of words
48 where the first word will have the other words on that line as
49 synonyms.
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53 Please consult specialised literature to find out how the different
54 algorithms work or simply try another
55 search stragegy you do not get the intended search results.
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59 /etc/htdig/htdig.conf
60 The default configuration file. /var/lib/htdig/db.accents.db
61 (Output) Maps between characters with and without accents for
62 accents fuzzy rule /var/lib/htdig/db.metaphone.db (Output) Data‐
63 base of similar-sounding words for metaphone fuzzy rule
64 /var/lib/htdig/db.soundex.db (Output) Database of similar-sound‐
65 ing words for soundex fuzzy rule /var/www/html/htdig/english.0,
66 /var/www/html/htdig/english.aff (Input) List of words and affix
67 rules used to generate endings /var/www/html/htdig/root2word.db,
68 /var/www/html/htdig/word2rood.db (Output) Database used for end‐
69 ings fuzzy rule /var/www/html/htdig/synonyms (Input) List of
70 groups of words considered synonymous /var/www/html/htdig/syn‐
71 onyms.db (Output) Database used for synonyms fuzzy rule
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74 Please refer to the HTML pages (in the htdig-doc package)
75 /usr/share/doc/htdig-doc/html/index.html and the manual pages htdigcon‐
76 fig(8) , htmerge(1) , htnotify(1) , htsearch(1) and rundig(1) for a
77 detailed description of ht://Dig and its commands.
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80 This manual page was written by Robert Ribnitz. It is based on documen‐
81 tation of ht://Dig, and on earlier manpages provided by Christian
82 Schwarz and Stijn de Bekker.
83 21 July 1997 htdig(1)