DICTFMT_INDEX2WORD(1)

💖 DICTFMT_INDEX2WORD(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Linux User's Manual (yes that's the manual name, and yes it's giving very "one of many" but we love her anyway) and it's all about a lil tool called dictfmt_index2word. she's a quiet icon, a behind-the-scenes queen. let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

dictfmt_index2word — makes a .word index file out of a DICTD database .index file. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly fr fr 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dictfmt_index2word [OPTIONS] [index_file]

look at her. so simple. so clean. main character energy honestly ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie 🍓: dictfmt_index2word creates a word index file and drops it on stdout. where does it get the input? from the index file you hand it on stdin or straight up on the command line. either way works, she's flexible like that 💁

and what even is a word index file? so glad you asked. it indexes each subword from the multi-word headwords of the .index file, and it points them at the underlying .dict file. so like, every lil piece of a big compound headword gets its own way in. the way that makes sense when you see it 💡

a word index file is usually named <basename>.word, but ngl that's not mandatory. you can name it whatever you want, as long as you use the proper name in the dictd configuration file. so like, be free, but also don't shoot yourself in the foot, iykyk 🙈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --help — displays a usage message and then exits. she tells you how she works and then she's out, periodt 👑
• --locale locale — uses locale for sorting the .word file. if you just... don't pass this option, the default locale "C" is used. so if your sorting is looking weird, bestie, check your locale 😭
• index_file — the .index file to be converted. this is the one you're handing over to her, the little gift she needs to do her job 🎁

👑 AUTHOR 👑

dictfmt_index2word was written by Aleksey Cheusov <vle@gmx.net>. and this manual page was written by Robert D. Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>. we stan both of them for real, credit where credit is due 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• dictd(8)
• dictfmt(1)
• dictfmt_index2suffix(1)

go read those next, bestie, the whole squad is iconic 💖

ok and that's the whole page!! she's from LINUX, dated January 23, 2003, and lives at DICTFMT_INDEX2WORD(1) — so like, if you need her again, you know exactly where to find her 💜✨ byeee 🦋