---
name: "gopherindex"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "gopherd"
version: "3.0.3woody2"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gopherindex"
---

# gopherindex(8)

make full text indexes inside of gopher

## NAME

gopherindex - make full text indexes inside of gopher

## SYNOPSIS

**gopherindex** \[*-v* *\]* \[*-t* *next\|wais\]* \[*-N* *index\_name\]* \[*-gd* *gopherdatadir\]* \[*data\_directory* *\]*

## DESCRIPTION

The gopherindex program is used to make full-text indexes for a Gopher server.  It uses the underlying indexing mechanism, either WAIS, or the NeXT Digital Librarian to create the indexes.

Gopherindex uses  **waisindex** to generate indexes for sites using WAIS. For sites using NeXT indexing, gopherindex uses **ixBuild.** These programs must be in the current path for this script to work.

- **-v**

  Specifies verbose output.  Otherwise only error messages are output.

- **-N**

  specifies the name of the Index as it should appear to gopher users.  Remember to quote your name if it uses spaces.

- **-gd**

  specifies the name of the gopher-data directory.  You'll only need to use this if you have multiple servers on the same machine, or move your gopher-data directory.

- **-t**

  specifies the type of indexing to use.  This is only really useful if you are on a NeXT with both WAIS and NeXT indexing capabilities. Specify  **wais** for wais indices.  Specify  **next** for NeXT indices.

- **-wais**

  Specifies extra arguments to be passed to the  **waisindex** command.  These options will need to be quoted so they are not processed by the script.  See the EXAMPLES section.

## EXAMPLES

The following command indexes all of the files inside of  **/home/joeboy/gopher-data/courses** with verbose output and makes a link name of  **Search CIS Short Courses .**

 /usr/local/bin/gopherindex -v -N \\\
    "Search CIS Services Short Courses" \\\
    /home/joeboy/gopher-data/courses

The following command uses wais to all of the files in  **/home/joeboy/gopher-data/providers/bookstore** with verbose output.  The  **-wais -t dash** specifies that  **waisindex** should consider all of the files to have subdocuments separated by lines of dashes.

 /usr/local/bin/gopherindex -v -N \\\
    "Search Minnesota Bookcenter electronics inventory" \\\
    \-wais "-t dash" \\\
    /home/joeboy/gopher-data/providers/bookstore

## FILES

**ixBuild** Indexer for NeXT machines

**waisindex** Indexer for other machines