[GRLUG] gnome tracker issue

Eric Beversluis ebever at researchintegration.org
Wed Oct 3 13:56:14 EDT 2012


Doesn't seem to make any difference.
What's strange is that tracker doesn't seem to be updating its index,
even with a reboot of the computer.

On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 13:38 -0400, Mike Williams wrote:
> 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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