[GRLUG] gnome tracker issue

[Mike Williams]

Would escaping the spaces persuade it to search for that exact phrase 
rather than just finding a document that has all three words in it 
somewhere?

On 10/03/2012 01:29 PM, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> I'm trying to see how to use tracker. The tracker-search help says,
> "Applies an AND operator to all terms separated by a space (see
> --or-operator)."
>
> Yet when I run 'tracker-search php return button' or 'tracker-search
> "php return button" (I'm trying to find the document that has the phrase
> 'php return button' in it, "build-class.php"), tracker returns all kinds
> of documents, including many from /var/www/html, some of which don't
> seem to have the work 'return' in them anywhere, but not the particular
> document I'm looking for.
>
> So two questions:
> 1. Despite what the help says, is tracker-search doing an 'or' search
> rather than an 'and' search?
>
> 2. Why is it not finding the "build-class.php" document, which has the
> desired phrase in it?
>
> <snip>
> <?php
> //from phpexercises.com/php-exercise-select-field-class.html
> //2012-10-03
> //includes php return button
> </snip>
>
> Thanks.
> EB
>
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