NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

DIRECTORY is the directory to start indexing from.

BASEDIR is the directory corresponding to URL (default: DIRECTORY).

OPTIONS

-d, --duplicates

set duplicate handling ('ignore' or 'replace')

-p, --no-delete

skip the deletion of documents corresponding to deleted files (--preserve-nonduplicates is a deprecated alias for --no-delete)

-e, --empty-docs=ARG

how to handle documents we extract no text from: ARG can be index, warn (issue a diagnostic and index), or skip. (default: warn)

-D, --db=DATABASE

path to database to use

-U, --url=URL

base url BASEDIR corresponds to (default: /)

-M, --mime-type=EXT:TYPE

assume any file with extension EXT has MIME Content-Type TYPE, instead of using libmagic (empty TYPE removes any existing mapping for EXT)

-F, --filter=TYPE:CMD

process files with MIME Content-Type TYPE using command CMD, which should produce UTF-8 text on stdout e.g. -Fapplication/octet-stream:'strings -n8'

-l, --depth-limit=LIMIT

set recursion limit (0 = unlimited)

-f, --follow

follow symbolic links

-i, --ignore-exclusions

ignore meta robots tags and similar exclusions

-S, --spelling

index data for spelling correction

-m, --max-size

maximum size of file to index (in bytes or with a suffix of 'K'/'k', 'M'/'m', 'G'/'g') (default: unlimited)

-E, --sample-size=SIZE

maximum size for the document text sample (supports the same formats as --max-size). (default: 512)

-T, --title-size=SIZE

maximum size for the document title (supports the same formats as --max-size). (default: 128)

-v, --verbose

show more information about what is happening

--overwrite

create the database anew (the default is to update if the database already exists)

-s, --stemmer=LANG

set the stemming language (default: english). Possible values: danish dutch english finnish french german german2 hungarian italian kraaij_pohlmann lovins norwegian porter portuguese romanian russian spanish swedish turkish (pass 'none' to disable stemming)

-h, --help

display this help and exit

-V, --version

output version information and exit

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