---
name: "scriptindex"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "xapian-omega"
version: "1.4.29-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/scriptindex"
---

# scriptindex(1)

index arbitrary data as described by an index script

## NAME

scriptindex - index arbitrary data as described by an index script

## SYNOPSIS

**scriptindex** \[*OPTIONS*\] *DATABASE INDEXER\_SCRIPT* \[*INPUT\_FILE*\]...

## DESCRIPTION

scriptindex - index arbitrary data as described by an index script

Creates or updates a Xapian database with the data from the input files listed on the command line.  If no files are specified, data is read from stdin.

See https://xapian.org/docs/omega/scriptindex.html for documentation of the format for INDEXER\_SCRIPT.

## OPTIONS

- **-v**, **--verbose**

  display additional messages to aid debugging

- **--overwrite**

  create the database anew (the default is to update if the database already exists)

- **-s**, **--stemmer**=*LANG*

  set the stemming language (default: english). Possible values: arabic armenian basque catalan danish dutch earlyenglish english finnish french german german2 hungarian indonesian irish italian kraaij\_pohlmann lithuanian lovins nepali norwegian porter portuguese romanian russian spanish swedish tamil turkish (pass 'none' to disable stemming)

- **-h**, **--help**

  display this help and exit

- **-V**, **--version**

  output version information and exit

Please report bugs at: https://xapian.org/bugs