xapian-delve1
Inspect the contents of a xapian database
Usage
delve [OPTIONS]
DATABASE ...
Overview
delve - Inspect the contents of a Xapian database
Options
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-a -
show all terms in the database
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-A <prefix> -
show all terms in the database with given prefix
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-r <recno> -
for term list(s)
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-t <term> -
for posting list(s)
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-t <term> -r <recno> -
for position list(s)
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-s, --stemmer=LANG -
set the stemming language, the default is 'none'
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-1 -
output one list entry per line
-V[<type>]<valueno>-
output value valueno for each document referred to (or each document in the database if no
-roptions). <type> can be: E: escape in a C-like way (default) I: decode as a packed integer R: show the raw value (which may contain binary data,
- newlines, invalid UTF-8, etc)
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S: decode using Xapian::sortable_unserialise()
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-V[<type>] -
output all values for each document referred to. <type> is as above.
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-d -
output document data for each document referred to
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-z -
for db, count documents with length 0
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-v -
extra info (wdf and len for postlist; wdf and termfreq for termlist; number of terms for db; termfreq when showing all terms; value bounds and freq when showing all values in a slot)
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-vv -
even more info (also show collection freq and wdf upper bound for terms)
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--help -
display this help and exit
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--version -
output version information and exit
History
- Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
- Debian 13 (Trixie)
- Debian 12 (Bookworm)
- Debian 11 (Bullseye)
- Debian 10 (Buster)
- Debian 9 (Stretch)