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NightMonkey
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 Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:26 am Post subject: How to properly search for paths and files? |
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| Hi all. I want to search for articles that deal with, say, "/etc/limits". However, search doesn't appear to like this, perhaps barfing (well, ignoring) on either "etc" (it's a stopword), or the "/"es. Is there a proper way to search for such items? |
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fennec
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:56 am Post subject: |
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If you are talking about the forum's search tool... PhpBB's search tool capabilities are limited... i have been experiencing search problems too  |
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NightMonkey
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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| It's sad, since, IMO, one of Gentoo's great strengths is its Forums - a giant knowledgebase, usefull for Gentoo users and GNU/Linux users in general. Without a good search function, the Forums become a lot less useful, and I predict that they'll become less trafficked if search isn't kept up to snuff. We're all used to Google now (spoiled by it?). But, I know resources are tight... |
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Maedhros
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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Mmm, people have complained before... quite a lot of them in fact! You know that you can use google to search the forums anyway? Try this query: site:forums.gentoo.org /etc/limits.
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NightMonkey
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the suggestion. It didn't appear to work - Google found no results. Just to make sure, I did successfully find other search terms that would have been filtered by the Forums search (like "/etc"), but not "/etc/limits".
| Maedhros wrote: | | Mmm, people have complained before... quite a lot of them in fact! You know that you can use google to search the forums anyway? Try this query: site:forums.gentoo.org /etc/limits. |
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fennec
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| Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 2:07 am Post subject: |
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| Maedhros wrote: | | Mmm, people have complained before... quite a lot of them in fact! You know that you can use google to search the forums anyway? Try this query: site:forums.gentoo.org /etc/limits. |
adding a google search box to the forum's site would be great idea... |
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tln
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| Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:26 am Post subject: |
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| fennec wrote: | | Maedhros wrote: | | Mmm, people have complained before... quite a lot of them in fact! You know that you can use google to search the forums anyway? Try this query: site:forums.gentoo.org /etc/limits. |
adding a google search box to the forum's site would be great idea... |
I just have a quicksearch with the keyword gentoo in firefox
| Code: | | http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aforums.gentoo.org+%s |
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Gentree
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| Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:32 am Post subject: |
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Brilliant , I'll bookmark that Google now.
phpBB search is very basic and long, long overdue for a bit of work.
someone on one of these forums was going to look into it if he got permission from his employer: IBM.
Dont know what became of the idea.
Thanks for the google tip. Its also a damn site quicker to return the results.
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