User Guide

Processing Options 157
For example, to map the filepath /usr/pub/docs to http://web/~verity, use the
following:
vdkvgwkey /usr/pub URL http://web/~verity
See also -abspath.
-processbif
Syntax: -processbif ’command_string !*’
Due to the use of special characters, which represent the bulk insert file (BIF), you
must run Verity Spider with a command file using the
-cmdfile option.
Specifies a command string in which you can call a program or script which operates
on BIFs generated by Verity Spider.
For example, if you want to use a script called
fix_bif to add customized
information to BIF files, use the following command:
vspider -cmdfile filename
Where filename is the text-only command file which contains the following (among
any other necessary options):
-processbif ’fix_bif !*’
Note that your command file will include other options as well.
-regexp
Specifies the use of regular expressions rather than the default wildcard expressions
for the following options:
-exclude, -indexclude, -include, -indinclude,
-skip, -indskip, -preferred, and -nofollow
.
Wildcard expressions allow the use of the asterisk ( * ) for text strings, and the
question mark ( ? ) for single characters.
Regular expressions allow for more powerful and flexible means for matching
alphanumeric strings. For example, to match "ab11" or "ab34" but not "abcd" or
"ab11cd," you could use the following regular expression:
^ab[0-9][0-9]$
The full extent to which regular expressions can be employed is beyond the scope of
this description. For more information on regular expressions, refer to a book
devoted to the subject.
This wildcard expression... Will apply to these text strings...
a*t although, attitude, audit
file?.htm files.htm, file1.htm, filer.htm
name?.* names.txt, name.doc, named.blank,
names.ext