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ptx

Generate a permuted index of words from text files. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ptx.

  • Generate a permuted index where the first field of each line is an index reference:

ptx --references {{path/to/file}}

  • Generate a permuted index with automatically generated index references:

ptx --auto-reference {{path/to/file}}

  • Generate a permuted index with a fixed width:

ptx --width={{width_in_columns}} {{path/to/file}}

  • Generate a permuted index with a list of filtered words:

ptx --only-file={{path/to/filter}} {{path/to/file}}

  • Generate a permuted index with SYSV-style behaviors:

ptx --traditional {{path/to/file}}