SWISH-E(1)

💖 SWISH-E(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the swish-e manual page — yes, that's SWISH-E(1), from the Swish-e Documentation era, and it's literally the gateway drug to this whole search-engine situation. buckle up 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

Swish-e — A Search Engine. that's it, that's the whole name section, she's concise and she knows it 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

no cap, here's every single way you can call her. verbatim, untouched, iconic:

swish [-e] [-i dir file ... ] [-S system] [-c file] [-f file] [-l] [-v (num)]
swish -w word1 word2 ... [-f file1 file2 ...] \
      [-P phrase_delimiter] [-p prop1 ...] [-s sortprop1 [asc⎪desc] ...] \
      [-m num] [-t str] [-d delim] [-H (num)] [-x output_format]
swish -k (char⎪*) [-f file1 file2 ...]
swish -M index1 index2 ... outputfile
swish -N /path/to/compare/file
swish -V

fr fr, go read the SWISH-RUN(1) man page for the details on all those run-time options. the synopsis is giving teaser, the run page is giving the whole lore 👑

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Swish-e is Simple Web Indexing System for Humans - Enhanced. she can index directories of files or remote web sites, quickly and easily, and then search the indexes she just generated. multi-talented, main character energy, no notes 🦋

Swish-e is extremely fast in both indexing and searching, she's highly configurable, and she can be seamlessly integrated with existing web sites so the design stays consistent. like, she'll match your aesthetic. Swish-e can index web pages, but she can just as easily index text files, mailing list archives, or data stored in a relational database. versatile queen 🌸

Swish is designed to index small to medium sized collection of documents. although a few users are indexing over a million documents, typical usage is more often in the tens of thousands. and heads up — currently, Swish-e only indexes eight bit character encodings. that's the vibe check, that's the limit, periodt.

✨ DOCUMENTATION ✨

the docs are provided as HTML pages installed in $prefix/share/doc/swish-e where $prefix is /usr/local if you're building from source, or /usr if it got installed as part of a package from your OS vendor. under Windows, $prefix is selected at installation time. choose your own adventure bestie 🧚

Documentation is also available on-line at http://swish-e.org. go, click, slay.

A subset of the documentation is installed as system man pages as well. the following man pages should be installed:

• swish-e(1) — this man page. hi, you're here, you made it 💖
• SWISH-CONFIG(1) — defines options that can be used in a configuration file. the config-file lore.
• SWISH-RUN(1) — describes the run-time options and switches. all the flags, all the drama.
• SWISH-FAQ(1) — answers to commonly asked questions. your questions were valid, bestie.
• SWISH-LIBRARY(1) — API for the Swish-e search library. applications can link against this library. iykyk 🔥

✨ SUPPORT ✨

Support for Swish-e is provide via the Swish-e discussion list. see http://swish-e.org for information. come through, the group chat is open 🫶

and that's a wrap, gorgeous 💜 this whole page is 2.4.7, dated 2009-04-04, and it's the SWISH-E(1) man page — original flavor, but make it cute. now go index something and be iconic ⭐🎀