File Systems

You want to spider a network drive to index all Microsoft Word and ASCII text documents, while skipping all directories named TEMP, CONFIDENTIAL, and ACCOUNTING and all others more than 4 subdirectories deep.

vspider -cmdfile c:\verity\vspider\files.cmd

where files.cmd consists of:

-collection icd.coll

-start f:\documents

-indmimeinclude application/msword -indmimeinclude 'text/plain'

-prunedir 'TEM*' 'CONFIDENTI*' 'ACCOUNT*' -pathlen 6

If you find MIME types are being dropped, or you know you will be indexing files whose extensions are not known to the Verity Spider by default, use the regular expression '*/*' for your MIME criteria.

For example:

-mimeinclude '*/*'

Remember, on UNIX you need to include single quotes for values which include wildcard characters.

Furthermore, you should also use inclusion and exclusion criteria to fine tune what is indexed.

• If your list of file types to index is rather long, use one of the exclusion criteria (-exclude, -indexclude, -mimeexclude, or -indmimeexclude) to exclude extensions you know you do not want to index. For example:
  
        -exclude '*.exe' '*.com'
• If the list of file types you want to index is relatively small, use one of the inclusion criteria (-include, -indinclude, -mimeinclude, or -indmimeinclude) to specify them. For example:
  
        -indinclude '*.txt' '*.1st' '*.log'

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