What kind of shell script did you have in mind? The wiki already provides some useful scripts. The tutorials on Nutch also show commands that can be used in custom scripts.
Is an immediate crawl-with-one-command a desired feature? Provided as Java code or shell script? On Tuesday 23 August 2011 10:12:57 Julien Nioche wrote: > +1 let's replace it with a shell script instead. > > On 22 August 2011 21:56, Markus Jelsma <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The crawl command seems to add a lot of confusion. It hides the entire > > crawl > > cycle logic from new users, leading to questions, lack of understanding > > of basic Nutch concepts, unsupported switches of the jobs it executes, > > more problems etc. I am quite an opponent of the crawl command and would > > also not > > recommend it to anyone including new users. A running Nutch almost always > > requires some scripting here and there, cron jobs, locks etc. > > > > I propose (most likely a challenging statement) to deprecate the crawl > > command > > in 1.4. > > > > Users, developers, please comment. > > > > Thanks -- Markus Jelsma - CTO - Openindex http://www.linkedin.com/in/markus17 050-8536620 / 06-50258350
