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Idutils - Tools for indexing

A package of language independent tools that indexes program identifiers, literal numbers, or words of human-readable text. Through an "ID database," a binary file containing a list of filenames, a list of tokens, and a simple matrix indicating which tokens appear in which files, text-searching tasks become simpler and faster.

The ID utilities handle more than just identifiers; they also treat other kinds of tokens, including numeric constants, and the contents of certain character strings.

Database queries can be issued from the command-line, or from within emacs, serving as an augmented tags facility.

Programs included are:

 mkid: (id-utils)mkid invocation.        Creating an ID database.
 * lid: (id-utils)lid invocation.        Matching words and patterns.
 * fid: (id-utils)fid invocation.        Listing a file's tokens.
 * fnid: (id-utils)fnid invocation.      Looking up file names.
 * xtokid: (id-utils)xtokid invocation.  Testing mkid scanners.

Database queries can be issued from the command-line, or from within emacs, serving as an augmented tags facility.

Obtaining

Web page	http://www.fsf.org/software/idutils/idutils.html
Source tarball	http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/id-utils/id-utils-3.2.tar.gz

Version 3.2 (stable) released on 1996-08-06

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.

This is a GNU package.

Documentation

User manual included

Support contacts

Bug List

<bug-idutils@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers	Greg McGary <greg@mcgary.org>
Developers	Greg McGary <greg@mcgary.org>
Contributors	Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@mail.hcsc.com> Francois Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>

Related information

Interfaces	command line
Programs	mkid, lid, fid, xtokid, fnid
Source languages	C

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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