TEXINDEX(1)

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💖 TEXINDEX — ok so hear me out bestie 💖

it's a User Command, she's from the GNU texinfo fam, and she's here to sort your Texinfo index files. no cap. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

texindex — sort Texinfo index files 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

texindex [OPTION]... FILE...

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so basically? it generates a sorted index for each TeX output FILE. periodt. 💖

and like, usually FILE... is specified as foo.?? for a document called foo.texi. that's the vibe. the ?? is doing main character energy work there, matching all the little index files, iykyk. 🌈

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h, --help — display this help and exit 👑 it's giving "I just wanna know what's happening"
  • --version — display version information and exit ⭐
  • -- — end option processing 🛑 like ok we're DONE with flags now, everything after this is a file, fr fr

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Email bug reports to bug-texinfo@gnu.org, and general questions and discussion go to help-texinfo@gnu.org. 🫶

Texinfo home page: https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/

Copyright © 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. 💅

There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. 🚨 like literally none bestie, don't come for them if it breaks

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

The full documentation for texindex is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and texindex programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info texindex

should give you access to the complete manual. 📖✨

and that's the whole thing, bestie!! this page came to you from GNU texinfo 7.3, dated March 2026 — slay, iconic, no notes 💖🎀🌸

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