FAIND - text search utility: help system

FAIND utility supports the -help command to provide a terse description of most of implemented commands. It is not a complete manual but may be useful when you forget the syntax of an option. Run faind.exe without any argument, it shows the list of help sections:

help sections shown by FAIND utility

In order to see the options in selected topic (help section), type

faind -help=N

where N is a number of section.

Dictionary status

Dictionary is an embedded database containing natural languages morphology information which is used by grammar engine. The parameters of installed dictionary are shown by -help=6 command:

 

Text encodings

The search engine has built-in support for many text encodings. It is possible to compile the engine with reduced support for rarely used encodings. The actual list of supported encoding (aliases are included) can be viewed by -help=10 command:

list of encodings

 

Miscellaneous

--version command prints the version number of the search engine (it is implemented for compatibility with GNU find) and closes the application:


Additional information

Embeddable search engine API

Search engine commands

 

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