Shell Programming and Scripting

hahaha .. I know exactly what you mean Kevin .. .. I wish I had a choice too :P .. But I need this as added functionality to the search engine I am designing ..

Read my post above, the for loop idea that I have .. Do u think it is feasible ?? or even possible ?

Neha

I doubt a loop is the way to go, especially if this is a general utility search engine. It could probably work if the data is very limited in length.

Yes. I agree. which is why i am asking here if anyone can think of a more feasible way ..

The search is limited to news articles though .. So this script that i am designing will run only on text that is anywhere between 100 and 1000 words in length.

This is worth moving to the advanced section.

Umm .. where would that be ?? I just posted under shell scripts .. Didnt know there was an advanced section.

That I know (I ask my friend Google ) however to solve the problem I have to options :
1. Ask you to post a data sample.
2. Build my own data sample (for you)... see previous post

lol .. okk danmero .. Here is one of the text files I am working from, as an example. .. After removal of HTML tags and extraction of only the content i require, i.e, title, author, date and article content. This data will eventually be pulled from a database. But right now .. i am working from text files.

In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth
Katie Orlinsky for The New York Times

Published: February 24, 2009

One idea that elite universities like Yale, sprawling public systems like Wisconsin and smaller private colleges like Lewis and Clark have shared for generations is that a traditional liberal arts education is, by definition, not intended to prepare students for a specific vocation. Rather, the critical thinking, civic and historical knowledge and ethical reasoning that the humanities develop have a different purpose: They are prerequisites for personal growth and participation in a free democracy, regardless of career choice.

But in this new era of lengthening unemployment lines and shrinking university endowments, questions about the importance of the humanities in a complex and technologically demanding world have taken on new urgency. Previous economic downturns have often led to decreased enrollment in the disciplines loosely grouped under the term “humanities” - which generally include languages, literature, the arts, history, cultural studies, philosophy and religion. Many in the field worry that in this current crisis those areas will be hit hardest.

Already scholars point to troubling signs. A December survey of 200 higher education institutions by The Chronicle of Higher Education and Moody's Investors Services found that 5 percent have imposed a total hiring freeze, and an additional 43 percent have imposed a partial freeze.

In the last three months at least two dozen colleges have canceled or postponed faculty searches in religion and philosophy, according to a job postings page on Wikihost.org. The Modern Language Association's end-of-the-year job listings in English, literature and foreign languages dropped 21 percent for 2008-09 from the previous year, the biggest decline in 34 years.

“Although people in humanities have always lamented the state of the field, they have never felt quite as much of a panic that their field is becoming irrelevant,” said Andrew Delbanco, the director of American studies at Columbia University.