Peter Karman <peter@...> writes: > > Shahab wrote on 8/27/14 7:12 AM: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying Lucy for first time. > > > > I will like to know if we can have Lucy return all matches of a search query > > in a single file. > > > > ex: indexing log file funny.txt having content > > 1: This is a lion and this is a tiger > > 2: This is a lion only > > 3: This is a tiger and a lion both > > > > search : lion > > > > Result : > > funny.txt "...This is a lion and..." > > funny.txt "...This is a lion ..." > > funny.txt "...and a lion ..." > > (some thing similar) > > > > Shahab, > > Lucy works on collections of documents, where each hit in a search result set > represents a single document. > > That said, people use tools like Lucy to search logs, e.g., by creating a single > "document" for each line in the log file. > > If you just want to find all the matches for a term in a single file, though, > you're better off with something like 'grep'. > > HTH, > pek >
Dear Pek, Thanks for your reply. I am looking for indexing big files > 2 GB and grep is not to be used as per the use case. Lucy looked liked a good option to me other than creating my own index file, indexing on line number and some fixed keywords.. Regards Shahab
