HP Search/XL User's Guide

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Also, some options accept arguments which must be placed immediately following their options. If an
option is specified more than once, or if contradictory options are specified, HP Search recognizes only the
first option.
What the HP Search Options Specify
You can specify up to ten different options each time HP Search is executed. These options are shown
below in Table 3-3. For each option this table shows syntax, indicates whether it has or is a default value,
and describes what HP Search does when you specify it.
Table 3: HP Search Option Parameters
Option Syntax Default? Description
LIST filename
[REPLACE]
MATCHLOG filename
[REPLACE]
PATTERNLOG filename
[REPLACE]
SEARCHLOG filename
[REPLACE]
SRCHLIST
SRCHMTCH
SRCHPAT
SRCHLOG
Indicates that HP Search output should go to the file filename.
Indicates that a list of the files containing search matches should
go to the file filename.
Indicates that a list of the patterns specified should be output to
the file filename.
Indicates that the list of files searched should be output to file-
name.
COUNT
NOCOUNT x
Print only the names of the files containing a match and how
many matches were found in each.
Print all lines containing matches.
DOTS
NODOTS x
Indicate progress by printing a period (dot) for every file
searched.
Do not print dots.
INDEX
NOINDEX x
Update and use the block indexing file SRCHnnn.PUB to
increase the speed of searches.
Do not update the block indexing file.
NUM
UNN
x Print line numbers to the left of the matching lines.
Do not print lines numbers.
QUIET
NOQUIET x
Prevent search output from going to $STDLIST. (This is usually
the terminal.)
Send search output to $STDLIST.
USECASE
IGNORECASE x
Search the specified patterns with case-sensitivity.
Search the specified patterns without regard to the case of the
characters.