I wrote this dirt stupid script to build a searchable index for our help files. The idea would be that it would be run at compile time to allow runtime keyword searches. Any reason y'all see why it couldn't actually be refined to the point of being useful (it's really just a toy) and be used in gnucash? b.g. #! /bin/bash rm -f /tmp/tmpindex /tmp/tmpkeys # match word occurrences to files for i in "$@" ; do cat $i | sed -e "s/<[^>]*>//g"| tr \",\(\)\;\&\<\>\!\$\* ' ' | tr -s ' ' '\n' | tr -d [:blank:] | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] | sed -e "s/^..$//g" | sed -e "s/^.$//g" | grep -E "^.+$" | sed -e 's/\. *$//g' | sed -e 's/: *$//g' | sed -e s/^\'//g | sed -e s/\'$//g | sed -e s/\$/\ $i/g | sort | uniq >> /tmp/tmpindex done # extract the keys cat /tmp/tmpindex | sed -e "s/^\([^ ]*\) .*$/\1/" | sort | uniq > /tmp/tmpkeys # build the index echo "building db..." rm -f p/tmpdb for i in `cat /tmp/tmpkeys`; do list=`grep -E ^$i /tmp/tmpindex | sed -e "s/^[^ ]* \(.*\)$/\1/" | uniq `; echo $i: $list >> /tmp/tmpdb ; done _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel