JHSEARCH(1)

📦 version 2.0.05.ds1, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ JHSEARCH ✨

okay bestie, say hi to jhsearch — it's the JavaHelp command line utility, and it lives in the Java Tools crew 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

jhsearch database_directory

🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

  • database_directory — this is the database directory, and it's made by the command jhindexer. that's the whole vibe, no cap 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, jhsearch is a command-line program that lets you query the JavaHelp system full-text search database — the one that got created with the jhindexer command ✨

and here's the part that's genuinely iconic: you can use jhsearch to verify the validity of a search database without invoking the help viewer 😭👑

like, just peek at the database directly from your terminal. no GUI, no drama, no opening a whole viewer just to check if your database is behaving. it's giving main character energy fr fr 💅

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • jhindexer (1) — the one that actually builds the database, the origin story if you will 🦋
a lil note from me to you: this page is the Java Tools manual for jhsearch, dated June 28, 2007 — yeah she's vintage, and she still ate 💖
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