BUFR_INDEX_BUILD(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

bufr_index_build — bestie, it's literally the manual page for bufr_index_build 💖 no cap.

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so, real talk, this page is a little ✨recursive✨ — the whole description is basically a manpage inside a manpage, and it shows up twice. Not me being dramatic, it's genuinely in there twice, bestie. So we're gonna do both passes, same energy, same facts, zero skipped ✨. Buckle up 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

bufr_index_build

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Build an index file for a set of input BUFR files. 👑

⚠️ Warning: THIS TOOL IS STILL EXPERIMENTAL. Like, it's in its experimental era. Please do not treat it like it's got its life together, because it does not. 💀

🌸 USAGE 🌸

bufr_index_build [options] file file ...

Yeah bestie, that's [options] and then just. so many files. file file ... — feed it as many as you want 🍓

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• -f — Force. Force the execution not to fail on error. She's stubborn and she will NOT be stopped 💅
• -o output_index_file — Output is written to output_index_file. And here's the tea: if an output index file is required and -o is not used, the output index gets written to bufridx instead. That's the default name, iykyk 🎀
• -k key1,key2,... — Specify a list of keys to index on. By default, the input files are indexed on the MARS keys. And for each key you can request a type: a string (key:s) or a double (key:d) or an integer (key:i). So cute, so specific 🌈
• -V — Print version. That's it, that's the whole thing 💜
• -N — Do not compress index. Because by default the index is compressed, and the compression removes keys that only have one value. One-value keys are getting ghosted by default, fr fr 👻
• -h — Display this help text and exit. Bye bestie, help delivered, door's right there 🫶

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✨ and now… the REMIX ✨

Not me kidding — the page literally runs the entire thing again. So here it is, round two, same facts, still slaying 🦋

🌟 NAME 🌟

bufr_index_build

🌟 DESCRIPTION 🌟

Build an index file for a set of input BUFR files. 👑

⚠️ Warning: THIS TOOL IS STILL EXPERIMENTAL. Still experimental, still iconic, still not to be trusted with your taxes 😭

🌟 USAGE 🌟

bufr_index_build [options] file file ...

🌟 OPTIONS 🌟

• -f — Force. Force the execution not to fail on error.
• -o output_index_file — Output is written to output_index_file. If an output index file is required and -o is not used, the output index is written to bufridx.
• -k key1,key2,... — Specify a list of keys to index on. By default the input files are indexed on the MARS keys. For each key a string (key:s) or a double (key:d) or an integer (key:i) type can be requested.
• -V — Print version.
• -N — Do not compress index. By default the index is compressed to remove keys with only one value.
• -h — Display this help text and exit.

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And that's the whole page, bestie — twice the content, twice the vibes, absolutely zero regrets. 🌸✨💅

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This has been bufr_index_build, from the October 2026 era, chillin' under the BUFR_INDEX_BUILD(1) header — go build yourself an index, you main character 🫶💖🌈