1trackerd(1) User Commands trackerd(1)
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6 trackerd - indexer daemon for tracker search tool
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10 trackerd [OPTIONS]
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14 Trackerd provides both a powerful indexer and an extensible metadata
15 database. It indexes files including the text contents and any avail‐
16 able metadata to provide fast search services.
17 By default, trackerd will index all files in a user's home directory
19 (with the exception of hidden files). This can be overridden by speci‐
20 fying one or more directories to be indexed instead in the configura‐
21 tion file ($HOME/.config/tracker/tracker.cfg) and/or by using the
22 --include-dir option to specify other directories to be indexed.
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26 -?, --help
27 A brief help message including some examples.
28 -e, --exclude-dir=/PATH/DIR
31 Specifies a directory to be excluded from indexing (including
32 all subdirectories). Can be repeated to exclude more than one
33 directory.
34 -i, --include-dir=/PATH/DIR
37 Specifies a directory to be included for indexing. All non-hid‐
38 den subdirectories of the specified directory will also be
39 indexed. If this param is set then the user's home directory is
40 no longer indexed by default (you can still add the home direc‐
41 tory with this option).
42 -c, --crawl-dir=/PATH/DIR
45 Specify directories to crawl. Crawling of directories means
46 index every indexable content but do not watch for directory or
47 file changes.
48 -n, --no-indexing
51 Prevent trackerd from indexing and watching. Searching is still
52 possible.
53 -v, --verbosity=value
56 Makes trackerd log/print more information. Value can be one of 0
57 - show only errors, 1 - show only minimal output, 2 - show
58 detailed output and 3 - show debug output (don't do this, unless
59 you know what you are doing).
60 -t, --throttle=value
63 Value to throttle indexing. Value must be in range 0-20, with
64 lower values increasing indexing speed.
65 -m, --low-memory
68 Minimise memory usage. Note that this may slow down indexing.
69 -s, --initial-sleep=value
72 Set the initial sleep time in seconds. This is the time trackerd
73 waits at startup before indexing.
74 -l, --language=value
77 Language to use for stemmer and stop words list (ISO 639-1 2
78 characters code).
79 -R, --reindex
82 This forces trackerd to re-index all watched files and directo‐
83 ries. Since every watched directory and any previously indexed
84 file has to be read and processed again, this may degrade the
85 whole system performance, see also --throttle.
86 -f, --fatal-errors
89 Makes any errors fatal, i.e. forces abortion of trackerd. This
90 switch is only useful for debugging.
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94 $HOME/.config/tracker/tracker.cfg
95 Trackerd user configuration file. See tracker.cfg(5) and
96 tracker-preferences(1) for further details.
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100 Trackerd needs a dbus-daemon(1) to be running within your current ses‐
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105 tracker-search-tool(1), tracker-search(1), tracker-tag(1), tracker-
106 stats(1), tracer-query(1), tracker-meta-folder(1), tracker-files(1),
107 tracker-services(7).
108GNU July 2007 trackerd(1)