Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni <at> gmail.com> writes:
Mostly i was interested to find out whether there is an existing
script that searches dumps, instead of writing one myself.
I wrote a c++-program that can search through a databasedump (with regexes),
it's one of the first apps I wrote, so the source is not pretty to read. You can
find it here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Micke/WikiFind
I would not implement it that way (and I would not write it in c++ :), if I was
to write it to day, but if you are helped by it please go ahead and use it.
Use the second version of the program if you want to pipe the dump in from bzcat.
/Micke