Re: [htdig-dev] PHP and htsearch

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to =3D?iso-8859-1?Q?Manuel_Jes=3DFAs_Aguilera_Castro?=3D:
> Thanks for your help, but I'm trying to execute the command line using=20
> '&' and ';' and the output is always the first of several pages. I don'=
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> know how I can obtain the second, third, etc. pages :(
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> ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Torsten Neuer
...
>   On Thursday 07 November 2002 12:16, Manuel Jes=FAs Aguilera Castro wr=
ote:
>   > Hello friends! I need your help.
>   >
>   > I'm using a PHP script that executes a command line like this:
>   >
>   > htsearch -c /etc/htdig.db2002.conf words=3Dciudad
>   >
>   > Why the result page is the same when it executes "htsearch -c
>   > /etc/htdig.db2002.conf words=3Dciudad;page=3D2" ?
>   >
>   > Can you explain me the syntax of htsearch querystring in the comman=
d line?
>   > The "page" parameter seems like doesn't work.
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>   Ht://Dig may not honor the (more or less) new parameter delimiter cha=
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>   ";", depending on the version of Ht://Dig you are running.  Instead, =
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>   should use the traditional "&" to separate parameters on the command =
line.
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>   Since you are using a script to post-process the output of htsearch, =
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>   difference of using "&" instead of ";" would not be visible to the ou=
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>   world, so your script still can use ";".

Whether you use the new ";" delimiter or the old "&" delimiter, you
have to be careful when using either of these from the shell (either in
a shell script or from the command line).  They are both command delimite=
rs
to the shell, so they MUST be quoted if they are to be passed literally
to the program being called.  E.g.:

htsearch -c /etc/htdig.db2002.conf "words=3Dciudad;page=3D2"

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)