Questions tagged [indexing]
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/usr/lib/tracker/tracker-store causes very heavy CPU load on Debian "Buster"
After the last upgrade on:
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid
Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-686-pae
Architecture: x86
/usr/lib/tracker/tracker-store eats a huge load of CPU.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S …
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generate a hyperlinked table of contents and insert into existing PDF
I have an existing PDF (without any corresponding source file), and a text file which is a list of items referencing sections within the PDF file, along with a page number for each item. I would like to generate a new PDF which starts with a…
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Why index files?
I installed Linux on something like 3 or 4 different machines last year, and in two cases, I had a serious urge to vomit after noting that file indexers such as virtuoso (Debian testing with the latest KDE) and libtracker-miner were installed by…
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Easy-RSA index.txt, serial and duplicates
We have more than 700 certs, generated for OpenVPN usage by Easy-RSA 2. I don't know how this happened (suspecting deleting one time by somebody index.txt, serial or both), but more than half of the generated certificates have identical serial…
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Shellscript to print a directory tree and files's contents with a nice presentation
I'm trying to write a shellscript which prints a tree-view for a specific directory and it's subdirs to pdf via latex, as well as the titles and contents of all scripts contained within that primary directory.
The treeview works like a charm, but I…
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execute command on a defined range of directories
Is it possible to 'partition' a directory listing - say in to blocks of some number, to perform different actions on each 'range'?
For example, lets say I have the following directories inside another folder:
$ ls…
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What tools can I use for PDF indexing?
In our working group we used Recoll on a Ubuntu PC to index all the PDF. For a while we moved everything to a Redhat server. Is there a Recoll alternative which doesn't requires a GUI adn support searching through a web interface?
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bash array of arrays
Trying to write some nested loop, and I'm not getting how to write it. Perhaps I'm looking in a wrong direction but what I'm trying to write is:
declare -a bar=("alpha" "bravo" "charlie")
declare -a foo=("delta" "echo" "foxtrot" "golf")
declare -a…
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How can I get the recoll package to index markdown (.md) files?
From what I understand markdown is pretty similar to text and html, which are all indexed by the recoll search engine.
However my markdown files with extension .md are not being indexed. I have checked the filters and I am not sure which one applies…
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Does sort --unique -k drop duplicates in original order?
I'm doing a unique sort on a concatenated set of index files where the first column will sometimes change between each index and the second column will be a key value (actually hex addresses). Each indexN file iteration records addresses that…
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Index and search a directory
I have a directory tree containing many text-files. I would like to index the full-text of all these files (ignoring files with certain file-extensions), so that I can quickly search thorugh all of them.
I do not want to index my whole Home…
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Indexing files' metadata
Is there a tool that allows to index (search) files based on their metadata on linux? I've search a bit and found (here) that there are several tools that allow file indexing on linux:
Recoll
mlocate
locate-rs
But it seems like none of these…
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Read Text List into Dynamic array?
Trying to automate some work stuff and this includes many folder generations but and I was thinking of using a dynamic array to do this, let me know how this sounds.
First Part of my Script is to export a directory list using the:
ls…
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Find out when the recoll index was last updated
Is there a way to find out, when a recoll-index was last updated?
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Tracker-extract and Tracker-store processes consuming huge Amount of RAM
I am using Arch Linux, kernel 3.16.
From last one week my two processes tracker-extract and tracker-store are taking too much RAM. It results in hangup of system once in every 2 hours.
tracker-extract taking 300 MB and tracker -store taking 2 GB…
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