SHAREDINDEXSPLIT(8)

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💖 sharedindexsplit — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, so sharedindexsplit(8) is a Debian GNU/Linux thing and it does exactly one job: it splits a shared index file into multiple ones. that's it. that's the girl. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sharedindexsplit directory [ number ]

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • directory — the folder where the shiny new shared index files are gonna get created. that's where they live now. 🏠
  • number — how many characters we're looking at when we split the index file. like, how much of the name counts. 🔢

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea: sharedindexsplit reads a list of accounts from standard input — yes, stdin, the classic — and then splits them up into multiple shared index files.

and how does it decide who goes where? it looks at the first character of the username and groups by that. simple. iconic. 🫶

but WAIT. if you give it that second argument (number), it does not just use the first character — it uses that number of characters instead. so number = 2 means it's matching on the first two characters, etc. you control the vibe check. 💅

heads up bestie: the full documentation for shared folders with courier-imap and sqwebmail lives at /usr/share/doc/courier-base/README.sharedfolders.txt.gz — go read it if you want the whole lore. 📖✨

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

like, go check these out too, they're part of the same friend group. 👑

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Willi Mann <willi@wm1.at> for the Debian GNU/Linux system. thank you Willi, we love you fr fr. 💜

and that's a wrap, bestie!! 🌈 this was the Debian GNU/Linux forky/sid version, dated 2026-07-25 — so you're reading the fresh one. slay, go split some indexes, and remember: stdin is your bestie, the directory is your home, and number is optional but powerful. periodt. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸

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