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utility allows you to perform indexing operations for the Recoll text
search system.
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As indexing can sometimes take a long time, the command can be interrupted
by sending an interrupt (Ctrl-C, SIGINT) or terminate (SIGTERM)
signal. Some time may elapse before the process exits, because it needs to
properly flush and close the index. This can also be done from the recoll
GUI (menu entry: File/Stop_Indexing). After such an interruption, the index
will be somewhat inconsistent because some operations which are normally
performed at the end of the indexing pass will have been skipped (for
example, the stemming and spelling databases will be inexistant or out of
date). You just need to restart indexing at a later time to restore
consistency. The indexing will restart at the interruption point (the full
file tree will be traversed, but files that were indexed up to the
interruption and for which the index is still up to date will not need to
be reindexed).
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The
.B \-c
option specifies the configuration directory name, overriding the