htfuzzy - fuzzy command-line search utility for the ht://Dig search engine
Contents
Description
Description to follow here
Files
/etc/htdig/htdig.conf
The default configuration file.
Name
htfuzzy - fuzzy command-line search utility for the ht://Dig search engine
Notes On Searching
Please consult specialised literature to find out how the different algorithms work or simply try another
search strategy you do not get the intended search results.
Options
-cconfigfile
Use the specified configfile instead of the default.
-vVerbosemode Use this to get more verbose output while running htfuzzy. More than one v can be
specified (ie. -vv , -vvv
etc ). Specifying more than two v's is probably only useful for debugging purposes.
See Also
Please refer to the HTML pages (in the htdig-doc package) /usr/share/doc/htdig-doc/html/index.html and
the manual pages htdigconfig(8) , htmerge(1) , htnotify(1) , htsearch(1) and rundig(1) for a detailed
description of ht://Dig and its commands.
Supported Algorithms
Different algorithms are supported for searching:
soundex Creates a slightly modified soundex key database. Differences with the standard soundex
algorithm are: Keys are 6 digits and the first letter is also encoded. metaphone Creates a
metaphone key database. This algorithm is more specific to English, but will get fewer "weird"
matches than the soundex algorithm.
accents (No description of the algorithm at the moment)
endings Creates two databases which can be used to match common word endings. The creation
of these databases requires a list of affix rules and a dictionary which uses those affix rules.
The format of the affix rules and dictionary files are the ones used by the ispell program.
Included with the distribution are the affix rules for English and a fairly small English
dictionary. Other languages can be supported by getting the appropriate affix rules and
dictionaries. These are available for many languages; check the ispell distribution for more
details.
synonyms Creates a database of synonyms for words. It reads a text database of synonyms and
creates a database that htsearch can then use. Each line of the text database consists of
words where the first word will have the other words on that line as synonyms.
Synopsis
htfuzzy[-cconfigfile][-v]algorithm[options]
