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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