Indexing command for the recoll full text search system
recollindex -h
recollindex [ -c <configdir> ] [ -z ] [ -m ] [ -w <seconds> ] [ -D ] [ -x ]
recollindex [ -c <configdir> ] -i [ -f ] [<filename [filename ...]>]
recollindex [ -c <configdir> ] -e [<filename [filename ...]>]
recollindex [ -c <configdir> ] -l
recollindex [ -c <configdir> ] -s <lang>
recollindex [ -c <configdir> ] -S
The recollindex utility allows you to perform indexing operations for the Recoll text search system.
The -c option specifies the configuration directory name, overriding the default or $RECOLL_CONFDIR.
There are several modes of operation.
The normal mode will index the set of files described in the configuration file recoll.conf. This will incrementally update the database with files that changed since the last run. If option -z is given, the database will be erased before starting.
If option -m is given, recollindex is started for real time monitoring, using the file system monitoring package it was configured for (either fam, gamin, or inotify). This mode must have been explicitly configured when building the package, it is not available by default. The program will normally detach from the controlling terminal and become a daemon. If option -D is given, it will stay in the foreground. Option -w <seconds> can be used to specify that the program should sleep for the specified time before indexing begins. The default value is 60. The daemon normally monitors the X11 session and exits when it is reset. Option -x disables this X11 session monitoring (daemon will stay alive even if it cannot connect to the X11 server). You need to use this too if you use the daemon without an X11 context.
recollindex -l will list the names of available language stemmers.
recollindex -i will index individual files into the database. The stem expansion and aspell databases will not be updated. The skippedPaths and skippedNames configuration variables will be used, so that some files may be skipped. You can tell recollindex to ignore skippedPaths and skippedNames by setting the -f option. This allows fully custom file selection for a given subtree, for which you would add the top directory to skippedPaths, and use any custom tool to generate the file list (ie: a tool from a source code control system).
recollindex -e will erase data for individual files from the database. The stem expansion databases will not be updated.
With options -i or -e , if no file names are given on the command line, they will be read from stdin, so that you could for example run:
find /path/to/dir -print | recollindex -e
followed by
find /path/to/dir -print | recollindex -i
to force the reindexing of a directory tree (which has to exist inside the file system area defined by topdirs in recoll.conf).
recollindex -s will build the stem expansion database for a given language, which may or may not be part of the list in the configuration file. If the language is not part of the configuration, the stem expansion database will be deleted at the end of the next normal indexing run. You can get the list of stemmer names from the recollindex -l command. Note that this is mostly for experimental use, the normal way to add a stemming language is to set it in the configuration, either by editing "recoll.conf" or by using the GUI indexing configuration dialog.
At the time of this writing, the following languages are recognized (out of Xapian's stem.h):
danish
dutch
english Martin Porter's 2002 revision of his stemmer
english_lovins Lovin's stemmer
english_porter Porter's stemmer as described in his 1980 paper
finnish
french
german
italian
norwegian
portuguese
russian
spanish
swedish
recollindex -S will rebuild the phonetic/orthographic index. This feature uses the aspell package, which must be installed on the system.