HuntnGather – Blame information for rev 20
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1 | office | 1 | Short: File indexing and search utilities. |
2 | Author: Wizardry and Steamworks |
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3 | Uploader: "Wizardry and Steamworks" <office@grimore.org> |
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4 | Type: util/dir |
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5 | Replaces: util/dir/HuntnGather.lha |
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20 | office | 6 | Version: 1.7.2 |
1 | office | 7 | Architecture: m68k-amigaos |
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9 | Hunt & Gather - File search and indexing utilities. |
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10 | (or Hunt'n'Gather bro, ghetto style) |
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12 | © Copyright 2021 by Wizardry and Steamworks |
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14 | Released under the MIT License, all rights reserved. |
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16 | -=:[ ChangeLog ]:=- |
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20 | office | 18 | 20211019: |
19 | * Make Hunt search substrings if no wildcards have been specified. |
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20 | * Process current directory as a full path when invoked with "". |
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21 | * Code maintenance. |
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16 | office | 23 | 20210131: |
24 | * Store files as uppcase. |
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11 | office | 26 | 20210127: |
14 | office | 27 | * Some speedups. |
11 | office | 28 | * Small retouches and make the path or pattern argument required. |
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4 | office | 30 | 20210110: |
31 | * Fixes for the new pattern matching. |
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3 | office | 33 | 20210109: |
34 | * Add the ability to specify the database file for all tools (-d). |
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35 | * Perform some file checking for all tools before running. |
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36 | * Add Amiga-style pattern matching with Hunt. |
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1 | office | 38 | 20210107: |
3 | office | 39 | * Add the quiet option (-q) to the Gather tool. |
40 | * Process arguments cannonically for both Hunt & Gather. |
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41 | * Switch to a case-insensitive search for Hunt. |
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1 | office | 42 | |
43 | 20210105: |
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44 | * Ensure the database is sorted for future development. |
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45 | * Insert CTRL+C breaking of both tools for AmigaOS. |
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46 | * Make both tools more verbose. |
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47 | * Dot the is, dash the ts... |
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48 | |||
49 | -=:[ Introduction ]:=- |
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52 | Hunt and Gather are two utiltities for indexing and then searching |
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53 | fileswithin a drive or directory designed to speed up searching files. |
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55 | The Gather utility is meant to index any path and generate a search |
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56 | database. The Hunt utility will then open the database generated by |
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57 | Gather and look for files matching the string provided to Hunt as |
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58 | parameter. |
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60 | The utility was designed to check large collections of icons but the |
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61 | indexing and the fast search results proved indispensable enough for a |
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62 | self-standing program. |
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63 | |||
64 | -=:[ Design ]:=- |
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66 | Hunt and Gather are designed with constant memory usage in order to be |
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67 | suitable for all Amiga models. Namely, the Gather utility will search |
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68 | all files in a given path, sort the files in ascending order by using |
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69 | an external merge sort (tailored down to a 256KiB memory limit). |
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71 | Conversely, Hunt uses brute force to search for files but by reading |
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72 | lines from the database without loading the entire database in RAM. |
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73 | Perhaps ulterior versions of Hunt might partition the database file |
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74 | just like Gather does and then build Tries in oder to speed up finding |
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75 | files on the filesystem. |
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77 | The project adheres to the ANSI C standard and Amiga-centric semantics |
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78 | are compiled conditionally (in case the "___AmigaOS__" macro is |
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79 | defined at compile time).Otherwise, Hunt & Gather should run under any |
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80 | platform that benefits from an ANSI C compiler. |
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82 | -=:[ Usage ]:=- |
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3 | office | 84 | First the Gather utility is used to index a path: |
1 | office | 85 | |
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87 | Gather RAM: |
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90 | which will create a file in the S: directory named "gahter.db". While |
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91 | Gather is running, the utility will display the number of indexed |
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92 | directories and files on the command line. |
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3 | office | 94 | In order to look for a file, the Hunt utility is invoked with an Amiga |
95 | search pattern: |
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1 | office | 96 | |
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3 | office | 98 | Hunt #?test#? |
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3 | office | 101 | in this case, "#?test#?", that will be compared to all the files indexed |
1 | office | 102 | previously by Gather. In case any of the files previously indexed by |
103 | Gather contain the term "test", then the Hunt utility will display |
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104 | the path to the file. |
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105 | |||
106 | -=:[ Gather ]:=- |
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108 | The Gather utility takes one single parameter representing the path |
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109 | to be indexed; for example, all the following paths are valid: |
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112 | RAM: |
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113 | DH0:System/ |
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116 | When Gather runs, a database is created at "S:gather.db" by |
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117 | overwriting the previous database. For best results, Gather should |
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118 | run periodically and should scan a path that is most frequently |
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119 | searched for files. |
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121 | -=:[ Hunt ]:=- |
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123 | Hunt is the counterpart to Gather and will search the database at |
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124 | "S:gather.db" for files matching the terms passed to Hunt on the |
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125 | command line. |
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3 | office | 127 | For instance: |
1 | office | 128 | |
3 | office | 129 | Hunt #?test#? |
1 | office | 130 | |
131 | will search all files in the Gather database "S:gather.db" for the |
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132 | term "test". If any file within the database partially matches the |
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133 | term "test", then Hunt will display the path on the command line. |
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3 | office | 134 | |
135 | Hunt uses Amiga-style pattern for matching the file names. |
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137 | -=:[ Source ]:=- |
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1 | office | 138 | |
3 | office | 139 | The project is open sourced and licensed under MIT. The source code |
140 | is included in the AmiNET release or can be checked out via subversion |
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141 | from the Wizardry and Steamworks repository: |
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1 | office | 142 | |
3 | office | 143 | svn co http://svn.grimore.org/HuntnGather |
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4 | office | 145 | -=:[ Mentions ]:=- |
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147 | The code includes a shim for "getopt" in order to process command line |
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148 | parameters on Amiga without changing the semantics. The shim is created |
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149 | by Daniel J. Barrett, barrett@cs.umass.edu and is available on AmiNET: |
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151 | http://aminet.net/package/dev/misc/GetOpt-1.3 |
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1 | office | 153 | -=:[ Contact ]:=- |
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20 | office | 155 | E-Mail(tor): office@3wymlmcsvxiaqzmbepsdawqpk6o2qsk65jhms72qqjulk5u4bgmvs3qd.onion |
1 | office | 156 | Website: https://grimore.org/amiga/hunt_and_gather |
20 | office | 157 | Website(tor): http://3wymlmcsvxiaqzmbepsdawqpk6o2qsk65jhms72qqjulk5u4bgmvs3qd.onion/ |
1 | office | 158 | Discord: https://discord.gg/k9kyDsa |
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