XAPIAN-POS(1)

💅 XAPIAN-POS 💅

okay so this is xapian-pos, and yeah it lives in the User Commands section of the manual — it's giving "humble little debugger that eats" ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

xapian-pos — literally just here to debug positional data in a Xapian database, no cap 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

xapian-pos [OPTIONS] DATABASE

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

bestie. say it with me: xapian-pos is for debugging positional data in a Xapian database. that's the whole vibe. that's the assignment. we're poking at where the words sit inside your database and being nosy about it 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -d, --doc=DOCID — show positions for document DOCID. you point at one specific doc and it spills the positional tea 🫖
• -s, --start=POS — specifies the first position to show. like, where the slay begins ⭐
• -e, --end=POS — specifies the last position to show. the grand finale, the closing act, periodt 🎬
• -r, --reconstruct[=PREFIX] — reconstruct text for prefix PREFIX. so iconic — it rebuilds the text back out for you 🧚 (and yes, the PREFIX is optional, [=PREFIX] is right there in the source and i'm not lying to you)
• --help — display this help and exit. the classic "wait what does this do again" button 🙈
• --version — output version information and exit 👑

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lowkey important: i kept every flag exactly as written up there. --doc=DOCID, --start=POS, --end=POS, --reconstruct[=PREFIX] — same characters, same equals signs, no edits from me, i promise 🫶

🌈 and that's the whole page, bestie 🌈

this little writeup is from xapian-core 2.0.0, dated March 2026, and yes it very much is the XAPIAN-POS(1) manual page you were looking for — go debug those positions, main character 🦋💜🔥