Xapian discuss - Dec 2006 - Parameters and the omega binary

Hi,

I notice a difference in behaviour for the following two commands on
the omega binary:

./omega DB='forum' FMT='searchForum.xml'
HITSPERPAGE='25' P='madonna'

./omega
DB='forum'
FMT='searchForum.xml'
HITSPERPAGE='25'
P='madonna'


The first one in which I add the parameters to the command I receive a
list of hits
The second one in which I add the parameters on NAME=VALUE lines I
receive the following error after adding an empty line:

Content-Type: text/html
Exception: Couldn't read format template `'searchForum.xml'' (No
such
file or directory)


I'm lost, it looks like an bug to me.

Cheers,

Maarten

> I notice a difference in behaviour for the following two commands on
> the omega binary:
>
> ./omega DB='forum' FMT='searchForum.xml'
HITSPERPAGE='25' P='madonna'
>
> ./omega
> DB='forum'
> FMT='searchForum.xml'
> HITSPERPAGE='25'
> P='madonna'
The difference is in the quoting.  For the first example, the quotes are
interpreted by the shell, so omega gets the value "searchForum.xml"
(without the " symbols) for the FMT parameter.  For the second example,
the quotes are not stripped, so the omega gets the value
"'searchForum.xml'" (without the " symbols, but with the
' symbols) for
the FMT parameter.

Instead, do:

./omega
DB=forum
FMT=searchForum.xml
HITSPERPAGE=25
P=madonna

-- 
Richard