# Command line utility

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Indexes can be created, updated, or recreated via the console application:

flpidx.exe -name [index name] | -path [path to index store] | -recreate | -update | -create | -cf | -d [locations] | -ds | -f [file types] | -fd | -fm | -fma | -fnc | -verbose | -help

| -name [index name] | Name of the index to perform the operation on.
| -path [path to index store] | Path to the location of the index
| -recreate | Re-create the index
| -update | Update the index with changes found

-create

Create a new index

-cf | Enable case-sensitive searching
-d [locations] | Semi-colon list of locations to index
-ds | Index standard document locations
-f [file types] | File types for indexing (e.g. *.doc;*.docx;*.txt)
-fd | Index standard document files types
-fm | Index Outlook PST/MSG files
-fma | Index email attachments
-fnc | Include file names for non-content file types
-i | Index the files now

| -help | Show help information
| -verbose | Show detailed information of files being indexed

Examples:

To update the 'Emails' index the command line would be:

flpidx.exe -name "Emails" -update

To recreate the index stored in 'C:\Indexes\Shared' the command line would be:

flpidx.exe -path "C:\Indexes\Shared" -recreate

To create a new index stored in 'C:\Indexes\New' the command line would be:

flpidx.exe -create -name "New Index" -path "C:\Indexes\New" -ds -fd -i

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