LOCALSEARCH(1)

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🌸 LOCALSEARCH(1) — the LocalSearch manual, bestie edition 🌸

Okay so real talk: this is the manual page for localsearch, part of the LocalSearch docs, and it's genuinely one of the easiest little tools to get obsessed with. Sit down, grab a strawberry drink 🍓, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

localsearch — control and query the LocalSearch indexer 💅

Like, control it and query it. Both. It's giving multitasking main character energy.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

localsearch COMMAND

That's it. That's the whole vibe check. You give it a COMMAND and it does the thing ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So the LocalSearch indexer is a background service. It's just out there, doing its thing, quietly, in the background, like that one friend who never posts but always knows everything 👑

This command line utility is your way in. It lets you:

  • control that background service 🎮
  • query its state, aka ask it "girl, what's going on" 🔍
  • search for specific data 💫

That's the whole deal. No cap.

🎀 COMMANDS 🎀

Here's the full lineup, and yes, every single one is invited to the party 🫶

  • help — shows you help on the subcommands. The "wait, what does this one do again" button 🙈
  • extract — pulls the metadata out of a file. Extracting, but make it forensic 🕵️‍♀️
  • index — lists the indexed folders and lets you change them. Folder management era 💅
  • info — retrieves the information that's available for files and resources. The "tell me everything" option 👀
  • inhibit — temporarily inhibits indexing. Like putting the indexer on do-not-disturb 🌙
  • reset — erases the indexed data. ⚠️ Erases! The data! Gone! Be so sure before you do this one, bestie 😭
  • list — an alias for search. Same energy, shorter name, we love a nickname 🎀
  • search — searches for content. The whole point of the whole thing, honestly 🔍✨
  • status — gives you status and statistics on the data that's been indexed. Numbers!! Stats!! Feed me data 📊
  • tag — adds, removes, and lists tags. Organization slay 🏷️
  • test-sandbox — a sandbox for a testing environment. Playground mode, but for testing 🧚
Lowkey remember: list and search are literally the same thing. Not me learning that the hard way 💀

🌈 Sign-off 🌈

Okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💖 This was LocalSearch version 3.12.0, dated 09/15/2026 — go forth and index responsibly, bestie. Periodt. 👑✨

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