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Please can I have all the Plumber correspondence from Joe the Plumber, regardless of year or document type?
by ibmfud 5y ago
Please can I have all the Plumber correspondence from Joe the Plumber, regardless of year or document type?
- majewsky 5y agoModern shells have double-star globs for traversing arbitrary numbers of layers, so I would do something like this with: ls **/*Plumber*
- ibmfud 5y agoThanks, you just got me all the docs from Samantha the Plumber and Amit the Plumber too!
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- scaryclam 5y agoAnd tags don't help with that, when you just tagged everything with "Plumber".
- didgetmaster 5y agoThey could help if the tags were 'Occupation = Plumber' and 'Name = Joe'. Now a search for all files where both tags are present will get you Joe the Plumber's invoices. If you want everything from any plumber or from any person named Joe, then just leave off one of the tags from your search. It is very much like when querying rows in a relational database, just adjust your WHERE clause.
- _solr 5y agoYou just summarised the whole argument : you can go very far with a well structured relational database.
- didgetmaster 5y agoI agree. Unfortunately, right now the 'well structured relational database' is completely separate from the file system. Didgets was designed to combine the two into a single coherent system so that you can't update one without the other. By 'combining' doesn't mean I did what WinFS tried to do and just take a filesystem and a database and stick them together somehow. I built a completely new system from the ground up that incorporates traditional filesystem features (block allocation, stream management, metadata control, folder hierarchies, etc.) with solid relational database features (schema, tags).
- _solr 5y agoDo you mean Joe the Plumber from London, UK or Joe the Plumber from London, Ohio ? We all know how this ends up. It ends up being like Google where the search engine uses word embeddings and the like and removes word from your search queries or replaces November by December because they are both months so you can substitute one for the other right ?
- ibmfud 5y agoDon't care, just give me both. Since I've never been to London Ohio I don't think it will be a problem.