well, exporting to txt gives a better result for reading in other text
editors, I should have mentioned that those files will be accessible by
others who do not use Emacs...

Carl

2011/1/13 Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>

> Since Org-mode files are plain text, I don't think you would need to
> export them at all, rather I would imagine an easier solution would be
> to either
>
> 1. teach the search engine that .org means .txt
>
> 2. symlink all of your .org files to .txt file, e.g. on a linux, unix,
>   OSX system the following shell script will create a .txt symlink for
>   each .org file in the current directory
>   #+begin_src sh
>     for i in `ls --color=never *.org`;do
>         ln -s $i `basename $i .org`.txt
>     done
>   #+end_src
>
> Cheers -- Eric
>
> Carl Bolduc <carlbolduc@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Where I work, we have a powerful search engine that indexes all kinds of
> > files. It detects the converter to use based on the file extension. It
> does
> > not understand the .org extension.
> >
> > I would like to know how I could periodically export my org files to txt,
> > maybe through a command, to a specific location on my network. This way,
> the
> > search engine could index all my notes...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Carl
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