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Perl for Web Site Management
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Perl for Web Site Management

by John Callender
October 2001
Beginner content levelBeginner
528 pages
15h 20m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Running SWISH-E from the Command Line

The way this chapter’s web search tool is going to work is this: the user will type in some search terms in a web form and submit that form’s contents to a CGI script. The CGI script will then execute the swish-e program, just as if we were running swish-e manually, from the command line. The CGI script will read the results back from swish-e, format those results in a suitable fashion, and display them back to the web user. It sounds complicated, but it all works out just fine.

To understand the part of the CGI script that executes the swish-e command-line query, we should now try running swish-e ourselves, from the command line. Here’s an example that shows how such a command would look:

[jbc@andros search]$ ./swish-e -w "sails winches" -f ./scs_index 
# SWISH format 1.3
# Swish-e format 1.3
# 
# Name: SoCalSail search index
# Saved as: scs_index
# Counts: 5626 words, 486 files
# Indexed on: 25/02/01 15:57:07 PST
# Description: This is an index of the SoCalSail site.
# Pointer: http://www.socalsail.com/search/
# Maintained by: John Callender (jbc@west.net)
# DocumentProperties: Enabled
# Stemming Applied: 0
# Search words: sails winches
# Number of hits: 2
1000 /gear/category/sails.html "SoCalSail Gear Directory: Sailmakers and Sail Repair" 4987
982 /gear/category/winches.html "SoCalSail Gear Directory: Winches" 3430
.

We can see that the command, and the format of the returned results, are basically the same as they were when we ran make test ...

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