---
name: "dictfmt_index2suffix"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "dictd"
version: "1.13.3-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dictfmt_index2suffix"
---

# dictfmt\_index2suffix(1)

Creates a .suffix file from a DICTD database .index file

## NAME

dictfmt\_index2suffix - Creates a .suffix file from a  **DICTD** database .index file

## SYNOPSIS

**dictfmt\_index2suffix** *\[OPTIONS\]* **\[index\_file\]**

## DESCRIPTION

**dictfmt\_index2suffix** creates a suffix index file on stdout for the index file given on stdin or the command line.  A suffix index file is the same as  the  .index file except the characters in the headwords are reversed.  A suffix index file is normally named \<basename\>.suffix, but this is not mandatory as long as the proper name is used in the **dictd** configuration file.

## OPTIONS

- **--help**

  displays a usage message and exits

- **--locale** *locale*

  use locale for sorting the .suffix file.  If this option is omitted, the default locale "C" is used.

- **index\_file**

  the .index file to be converted.

## AUTHOR

**dictfmt\_index2suffix** was written by Aleksey Cheusov \<vle@gmx.net\>.\
 This manual page was written by Robert D. Hilliard \<hilliard@debian.org\>.

## SEE ALSO

[**dictd**(8)](/dictd/8.md), [**dictfmt**(1)](/dictfmt/1.md), [**dictfmt\_index2word**(1)](/dictfmt_index2word/1.md)