Lucene

It is a software that searches and indexed a given set of input files

It is based on Lucene API

Prerequisites

Java 17 or higher 

About

• this program searches for a word or a phrase in the given input files
• it uses the LUCENE API version 9.7 for most of its part
• it first creates a directory called indexedFiles
• then it searches that index to find the given pattern

Run the Program

• Download the jar package from the release section
• Keep the files to be searches in a folder and note the path of the file
• Follow the given commands to execute the program

Commands

• to know all the possible commands

java -jar .\luc_p.jar --help

• To create Index Files

java -jar .\luc_p.jar --write <Path of the inputfiles>

Example:

java -jar .\luc_p.jar --write D:\files\inputFiles

• To search from an existing indexed file

java -jar .\luc_p.jar --search <search word> <Path of the indexed Files>

Example:

java -jar .\luc_p.jar --search Milk D:\files\inputFiles\indexedFiles

• This is display all the matches found for the word with respect to the search word Milk
• It will display all the names of files where the word has occured

Note:

When the files are indexed using this software it will print the path to the folder where indexed files are present
Copy that path and paste it while it while searching