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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
To: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>,
	"ZSH workers mailing list" <zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk>,
	Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
Subject: Re: _man - fast searching for glob patterns
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 17:33:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <990927173307.ZM17473@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000101bf090a$e9069970$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru>
In-Reply-To: <E11VePQ-0005aL-00@crucigera.fysh.org>

On Sep 27,  9:08pm, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
} Subject: _man - fast searching for glob patterns
}
} while read manpage dummy
}   if [[ $manpage == $our-search-pattern ]]
}    ...
} done < $mandb-file
} 
} needs a considerable amount of time (10-15 seconds here).

On Sep 27,  6:17pm, Zefram wrote:
} Subject: Re: _man - fast searching for glob patterns
}
} Better read the index file once, and cache it in an associative array.

Check out the "mapfile" module.

zmodload mapfile
if [[ -f /usr/man/mandb ]]
then
  allpages=(${"${(f)mapfile[/usr/man/mandb]}"%% *})
  firstmatchingpage=$allpages[(r)$our-search-pattern]
  # ... etc. ...
fi

-- 
Bart Schaefer                                 Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts              http://www.brasslantern.com


  reply	other threads:[~1999-09-27 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-09-27 17:08 Andrej Borsenkow
1999-09-27 17:17 ` Zefram
1999-09-27 17:33   ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
1999-09-28  8:34     ` Andrej Borsenkow

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