FFINDEX_MODIFY(1)

👑 FFINDEX_MODIFY — it's the modify-file-index-entries girlie 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to ffindex_modify — she lives in section 1 of the manual (that's User Commands for those of us keeping track 🫶), and her whole job is modifying file index entries. simple. iconic. let's go ✨

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Here's the vibe check, fr fr — the usage is literally this:

USAGE: ffindex_modify -s|-u [-v] [-f file]* index_filename [filename]*

so you give her an index_filename, and optionally a bunch of filename args, and she does her thing. that's it, that's the whole assignment 💖

🎀 the flags, one by one

• -f file — passes in a file where each line contains a filename. and yes, you can stack this bad boy up to 4096 times. four thousand ninety-six. she's committed 😭
• -s — sort the index file ✨
• -u — unlink the entry (aka remove it from the index only, not from anywhere else, iykyk) 🙈
• -v — print version and other info, then dip out entirely 💨

🦋 EXAMPLE

not me dropping the example verbatim because every character matters:

ffindex_modify -us foo.ffindex entry1

To clean up the data file after unlinking, insert it to an new one:

ffindex_build -as cleaned.ffdata cleaned.ffindex -d foo.ffdata -i foo.ffindex

• Designed and implemented by Andreas Hauser <andy@splashground.de>. absolute legend, no cap 👑

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💀 BUGS

User feedback is welcome!! especially bugs, performance issues, and last but not least the convenience of the programs and API. she wants to hear from you, genuinely 🥺

Email Andreas Hauser at hauser@genzentrum.lmu.de.

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lowkey the whole point is she's listening, so if something's cursed, tell her. it's giving open-source community main character energy 🌈

and that's the page babes — ffindex_modify version 1.00, dated January 2026. go sort some indices, you ate 💅💖