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
next prev parent 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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