ID database utilities

Programs for simple, fast, high-capacity cross-referencing

for version 3.2

This manual documents version 3.2 of the ID utilities.

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Quick Start Procedure
• 3 Common command-line options
  • 3.1 Options Common to All Programs
  • 3.2 Options for Programs that Read ID Databases
  • 3.3 Options for Programs that Write ID Databases
  • 3.4 Options for Programs that Walk File and Directory Trees.
  • 3.5 Options for Programs that List File Names
  • 3.6 Options for Programs that Scan Source Files
    • 3.6.1 Mapping file names to source languages
    • 3.6.2 C/C++ Language Scanner
    • 3.6.3 Assembly Language Scanner
    • 3.6.4 Text Scanner
    • 3.6.5 Defining New Scanners in the Source Code
• 4 `mkid': Creating an ID Database
• 5 lid: Querying an ID Database by Token
  • 5.1 Aliases for Specialized `lid' Queries
  • 5.2 GNU Emacs query interface
  • 5.3 eid: Invoking an Editor on Query Results
• 6 fid: Listing a file's tokens
• 7 fnid: Looking up filenames
• 8 `xtokid': Testing Language Scanners
• 9 Past and Future
• Index

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