Re: interacting with an updatedb generated data file within python

2009-04-16 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
birdsong david.birds...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody have any recommendations on how to interact with the data file that updatedb generates? I'm running through a file list in sqlite that I want to check against the file system. updatedb is pretty optimized for building an index and

Re: interacting with an updatedb generated data file within python

2009-04-03 Thread John Machin
On Apr 3, 1:07 pm, birdsong david.birds...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody have any recommendations on how to interact with the data file that updatedb generates?  I'm running through a file list in sqlite that I want to check against the file system. updatedb is pretty optimized for building an

Re: interacting with an updatedb generated data file within python

2009-04-03 Thread John Machin
On Apr 3, 6:25 pm, John Machin sjmac...@lexicon.net wrote: The format appears to be documented e.g.http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/findutils/locatedb.5.html and thus should be found on the locatedb(5) man page on your system. More comprehensive:

interacting with an updatedb generated data file within python

2009-04-02 Thread birdsong
Does anybody have any recommendations on how to interact with the data file that updatedb generates? I'm running through a file list in sqlite that I want to check against the file system. updatedb is pretty optimized for building an index and storing it, but I see no way to query the db file