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indexer

fulltext index generator

          indexer
          --config CONFIGFILE
          --rotate

            --noprogress
            --quiet

            --all
            INDEX

          indexer
          --buildstops OUTPUTFILE COUNT
          --config CONFIGFILE

            --noprogress
            --quiet

            --all
            INDEX

          indexer
          --merge MAIN_INDEX DELTA_INDEX
          --config CONFIGFILE
          --rotate

            --noprogress
            --quiet

## DESCRIPTION

Sphinx is a collection of programs that aim to provide high quality fulltext search. `indexer` fetches all documents from the configured sources and creates the index data files.

This manual page was written for the &debian; distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in HTML format, see below.

## OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual &gnu; command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the HTML documentation.

`--config`

- Specify an alternate configuration file to use.

`--all`

- Causes `indexer` to (re-)index all indexes, instead of the specified ones.

`--quiet`

- Suppress all non-error output.

`--noprogress`

- Suppress progress information.

`-h` `--help`

- Show summary of options.

`--rotate`

- Writes index data files as INDEX.new files and sends a SIGHUP to searchd, causing it to rotate the index files.

## SEE ALSO

search (1), searchd (1).

Sphinx and it's programs are documented fully by the Spinx reference manual available in /usr/share/doc/sphinxsearch.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by &dhusername; &dhemail; for the &debian; system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the &gnu; General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.