htdig(1)htdig(1)NAMEhtfuzzy - fuzzy command-line search utility for the ht://Dig search
engine
SYNOPSIShtfuzzy [-c configfile] [-v] algorithm [options]
DESCRIPTION
Description to follow here
OPTIONS-c configfile
Use the specified configfile instead of the default.
-v Verbose mode , -vvv
etc ). Specifying more than two v's is probably only useful for
debugging purposes.
Supported Algorithms
Different algoritms are supported for searching:
soundex Creates a slightly modified soundex key database. Dif‐
ferences 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 spe‐
cific 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 distribu‐
tion 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 distribu- tion 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.
Notes on searching
Please consult specialised literature to find out how the different
algorithms work or simply try another
search stragegy you do not get the intended search results.
FILES
/home/cgi-bin/htdig/htdig.conf
The default configuration file. /var/lib/htdig/db.accents.db
(Output) Maps between characters with and without accents for
accents fuzzy rule /var/lib/htdig/db.metaphone.db (Output) Data‐
base of similar-sounding words for metaphone fuzzy rule
/var/lib/htdig/db.soundex.db (Output) Database of similar-sound‐
ing words for soundex fuzzy rule /home/cgi-bin/htdig/english.0,
/home/cgi-bin/htdig/english.aff (Input) List of words and affix
rules used to generate endings /home/cgi-bin/htdig/root2word.db,
/home/cgi-bin/htdig/word2rood.db (Output) Database used for end‐
ings fuzzy rule /home/cgi-bin/htdig/synonyms (Input) List of
groups of words considered synonymous /home/cgi-bin/htdig/syn‐
onyms.db (Output) Database used for synonyms fuzzy rule
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 htdigcon‐
fig(8) , htmerge(1) , htnotify(1) , htsearch(1) and rundig(1) for a
detailed description of ht://Dig and its commands.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Robert Ribnitz. It is based on documen‐
tation of ht://Dig, and on earlier manpages provided by Christian
Schwarz and Stijn de Bekker.
21 July 1997 htdig(1)