Re: NEWB Q: Can beagle-query read search terms from a file?

"D Bera" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.dashboard.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Bob,

> I just started using beagle-query and I was wondering if you can send
> beagle-query a text file full of keywords to search on versus using the
> command line.
>
> e.g.  beagle-query -f search_term_file
>
> kind of like
>
> grep -f filename *
>
> instead of beagle-query keyword1 or keyword2 or keyword3

No. Nothing like that can be currently done with beagle-query.
However, you should be able to do some xargs trick to generate a large
OR query from such a string and send it to beagle-query.

- dBera

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