hiutil(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 hiutil(1)

NAME

     hiutil -- utility for creating and examining Help Viewer indices

SYNOPSIS

     hiutil -Cf file [-1agv] [-m NUM] [-s LANG | PATH] [-r URL] [-t EXT] dir
     hiutil [-ADEFMRS] -f file

DESCRIPTION

     hiutil is for creating and examining .helpindex files. These files were historically created by Help Indexer.app, which now calls this tool.

     There are several different (and mutually-exclusive) modes:

     -C, --create
	      Create an index file at the location you specify. You must provide both a directory of HTML files to index and path to an output
	      file, which will be overwritten if it exists.

     -A, --list-anchors
	      List the index's anchors separated by newlines.

     -D, --list-anchor-dictionary
	      List the index's anchor dictionary in XML. This includes a list of which files contain each anchor.

     -E, --list-index-versions
	      List the index's version dictionary in XML. It describes the system environment on which the index was created.

     -F, --list-files
	      List all the files included in the index, separated by newlines. You can use the -v option with this mode to get titles and descrip-
	      tions as well.

     -H, --help
	      Prints out usage data.

     -M, --list-min-term-length
	      List the index's minimum term length.

     -R, --list-remote-url
	      List the index's remote URL. (This is only relevant for old-style indexes which include one.)

     -S, --list-stopwords
	      List the index's stopwords separated by newlines.

     -V, --version
	      Prints out the version of the tool.

GENERAL OPTIONS

     These can be used with any mode.

     -f, --file
	      P    ass in the path to  a file, either one to be created or one to be examined.

     -v, --verbose
	      Verbose output. Errors are always shown, but passing this argument once will print out warnings too. Twice will print out errors,
	      warnings and progress notes. This can be a lot of data!

CREATE OPTIONS

     These can only be used with the create mode.

     -1       Index one file at a time. The default is to use a queue to index several files in parallel. In combination with -vvv, this option
	      can be useful in determining which file an error message is from.

     -a, --anchors
	      Index anchors. The default is not to. Without this flag, there will be no anchor dictionary in the index.

     -e, --exclude=PATTERN
	      Exclude files which match this pattern. Uses NSPredicate's MATCHES comparison method on the file's path relative to the directory
	      being indexed. This option can be passed as many times as necessary, once per pattern. Exclusions take precedence over files
	      included with -i.

     -g, --generate-summaries
	      Generate summary text. This can be slow, but is useful if you don't have DESCRIPTION meta tags on some pages.

     -i, --include=PATTERN
	      Include files which match this pattern. Uses NSPredicate's MATCHES comparison method on the file's path relative to the directory
	      being indexed. The default patterns to index are ".htm" and ".html". If these defaults are undesirable, you may use -e above to
	      exclude them. This option can be passed as many times as necessary, once per pattern.

     -m, --min-term-length=NUM
	      Minimum term length. Can be 1, 2 or 3. This is the number of consecutive tokens (typically a character) required for a term not to
	      be ignored by the indexer. Recommended values are 3 for English and 1 for Chinese and other ideographic languages.

     -s, --stopwords=LANG|PATH
	      Use stopwords. If you have your own stopwords .plist, provide that path. Otherwise, pass the two-character language code:

		     en   English
		     es   Spanish
		     de   German
		     fr   French
		     hu   Hungarian
		     it   Italian
		     sv   Swedish

     -r, --remote-url=URL
	      Include a remote URL with the index. This is only useful in Type 1 or Type 2 help books, because the URL is in the help bundle's
	      Info.plist for Type 3 books. The URL should be fully qualified, for example:

     -l, --locale=LANG
	      Index for a specific locale. Instead of having to boot into the locale to index, pass the language code or locale identifier here to
	      index for that language. Example locale identifiers:

		     en_US
			  US English
		     es_ES
			  Spanish
		     de   German
		     fr   French
		     hu   Hungarian
		     ru_RU
			  Russian

		    https://www.mycompany.com/help_v1/

FILES

     /usr/share/hiutil/Stopwords.plist
				       List of default stopwords in different languages

EXAMPLES

     Here's what you'll mostly use this tool for, creating a help index:

	   hiutil -Caf /tmp/myhelp.helpindex myHelpDirectory

     And if you then want to make sure that worked as expected:

	   hiutil -Af /tmp/myhelp.helpindex

     Here's how to index .xml files as well, while ignoring everything in the idx directory in the root of your help folder:

	   hiutil -Caf /tmp/help.helpindex -i ".*.xml$" -e "idx/.*" myhelpdir

NOTES

     hiutil requires Mac OS X 10.6 or greater.

Darwin								   June 2, 2019 							    Darwin