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From: Otis Gospodnetic <otis_gospodnetic@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: using lucene to search in a 1 huge file. (aka "grep -n")
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In order for this to make sense, you would have to split your huge file
into either lines or blocks, whichever you want to be your indexing and
search/hit unit, and convert those to Lucene Documents, which you would
then index.
Searching would then return the line/block where matches are found.

Otis


--- prasen <prasen@bea.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>    I am relatively new to Lucene. Can lucene be used to speed-up
> search 
> for a string in one huge file( ~  TerraBytes ) based on its libe 
> numbers.  Something like "grep -n <pattern> <filename>" where the 
> indexing will be done only on one file and based on either 
> line-numbers/blocks.
> 
> prasen
> 
> 
> 
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