Hi, Yes it is actually the directory that you want to be indexed. I suppose it is the demo HelloLucene.java code that you are trying to run.
Regards, Gaurav Ranjan. On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 12:41 AM, sindhu hosamane <sindh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello , > > I downloaded and extracted lucene 4.2.1 , and set the 4 jar files in my > classpath . > But now when i execute the command > > java org.apache.lucene.demo.IndexFiles -docs {path-to-lucene}/src > > i get a error Document directory > '/Volumes/SindhuHosamane/IR_project/lucene-4.2.1/src' does not exist > or is not readable, please check the path > > though my path to lucene is correct . but i find there is no src > folder in lucene . > > What does docs mean ? is it the directory i need to index? > > Please help me . Waiting for your valuable information. > > > Regards, > > sindhu >