Exclude Words from an Existing Database

It slows the indexing process to use an ExcludeWords dictionary. It is possible to apply an existing exclusion dictionary of regular expressions or simple words to a written database. The command line syntax is:

asearch [--regexp] database-path excludewords file1 [file2][file3 ...]

For example:

asearch /usr/alkaline/data/ excludewords bar/words.txt

This feature was added 03-Aug-2000. The regular expressions extension was added in version 1.5.