Hi,
the announcement of glimpse V3.5 list the ability of glimpse
to select files based on the modification date of a file.
I think it would be nice if we could use this with mhonarc archives.
This requires that mhonarc changes the modification date of the
files it created as well as those created the mime filters. Mhonarc
knows all filenames so it should be possible. Unfortunately I have
not the time to do it myself otherwise I would send a patch ;-)
Any taker?
Achim
P.S. This is the announcement of glimpse v3.5:
udi(_at_)cs(_dot_)arizona(_dot_)edu said:
Glimpse version 3.5 is now available. The main improvement is an
option to receive results by reverse order of age and filter results
by age. (Age is determined by the file modification date.) We found
a way to do that without a noticeable speed penalty.
GlimpseHTTP version 2.0 takes advantage of this new option to provide
web search with age filtering. It also provides easier installation
and configuration, and decentralized configuration (users no longer
need access to a central amgr.conf file).
A new web search tool, called WebGlimpse, will be available very
soon. It will provide a better combination of browsing and searching
than glimpseHTTP, especially for sites with information that is not
clearly hierarchical. It will make it very easy to add flexible
search facilities to web sites, including the ability to collect from
other sites (a mini-Harvest of sorts). Stay tuned. (If you are
interested in being a beta tester, drop us a line at
glimpse(_at_)cs(_dot_)arizona(_dot_)edu)
Glimpse is a very powerful UNIX indexing and query system that allows
you to search through all your files very quickly. It can be used by
individuals for their personal file systems (e.g., to find old mail
messages), as well as by organizations for large data collections.
Glimpse supports three types of indexes: a tiny one (2-3% of the size
of all files), a small one (7-9%), and a medium one (20-30%). The
larger the index the faster the search. Glimpse supports most of
agrep's options (agrep is our powerful version of grep, and it is
part of glimpse) including approximate matching (e.g., finding
misspelled words), Boolean queries, and even some limited forms of
regular expressions. Glimpse is the default search engine in Harvest
(see http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu).
Glimpse is free for non-commercial use (but it is *not* in the public
domain).
The WWW home pages for glimpse are in http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/
(There are links there to the source code, binaries, and
documentations. If you can provide binaries for other platforms,
please let us know and we'll post them.)
GlimpseHTTP home pages are in http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/ghttp/
Mail comments, questions, and suggestions to
glimpse(_at_)cs(_dot_)arizona(_dot_)edu
List of changes in glimpse
3.0 --> 3.5 - added "-f filename" option to glimpse: it allows you to
restrict the search to only those files whose names appear in
"filename". - fixed the agrep bug where -n was not working with ISO
characters. - Added -t to glimpseindex that sorts .glimpse_filenames
by decreasing order of modify time (st_mtime in stat structure); -
Added -j option to glimpse to print time of file along with its name;
- Added "-Y days" option to print files that were modified "days"
before the index was created. - Added support for arbitrary
characters in filenames (e.g. >, <, space, &...)