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202 Chapter 10 Verity Troubleshooting Utilities
Attaching to a Collection Using rcvdk
To search a collection, you first must attach to it using the a command. This
command must include the path name to a collection directory as an argument.
After you press return,
rcvdk reports whether the attach command was successful.
RC>a /z/doc1/c/public/Collection/file_walking/collbldg/html
Attaching to collection:
/z/doc1/c/public/Collection/file_walking/collbldg/html
Successfully attached to 1 collection.
RC>
rcvdk
allows you to attach to one or more collections. The specified collections
remain attached until you detach from one or more collections using the
d
command.
Basic searching
To retrieve all documents, use the s command without arguments. After you press
return, a search update message is produced, as shown below.
RC>s
Search update: finished (100%). Retrieved: 85(85)/85.
RC>
The search results indicate that 85 of the total 85 documents in the collection were
retrieved. If you specify a query argument, such as “universal filter”, a subset of the
total documents in the collection, which contain the specified string, will be
retrieved.
RC>s universal filter
Search update: finished (100%). Retrieved: 18(18)/85.
RC>
In the messsage returned for the search above, rcvdk indicates that 18 documents
matched the query. More elaborate queries using the Verity query language can be
performed, as shown in this example:
RC>s universal filter <OR> filter.Troubleshooting and Maintenance Tools