User Guide

96 Chapter 8: Managing Collections with the mkvdk Utility
Message options
The mkvdk utility provides a variety of messaging options, as described in the following table:
Document processing options
The mkvdk utility provides a variety of document processing options, as the following table
describes:
Option Description
-quiet
Displays only fatal and error messages to the console. It overrides the
-outlevel setting. For a list of message types, see the table in “The mkvdk
utility syntax” on page 89.
-outlevel (num)
Indicates which message types to display to the console. Valid values are
determined by adding together the numbers that correspond to the desired
message types. The default value is 15. For more information, see the table
in “The mkvdk utility syntax” on page 89.
-logfile filename
Saves messages in the specified file.
-loglevel (num)
Indicates which message types to route to the optional log file. Valid values
are determined by adding numbers together that correspond to the desired
message types. The default value is 15. For more information, see the table
in “The mkvdk utility syntax” on page 89.
Option Description
-extract
Extracts field values from documents, using the field extraction rules specified in the
style.tde file.
-insert
Adds documents to the collection. This is the default option for the mkvdk command.
-update
Adds documents to the collection by replacing all previous information about the
specified documents.
-delete
Marks the specified documents as deleted, and makes them unavailable for searches.
To actually remove deleted documents from the collection’s internal documents table
and word indexes, use the squeeze keyword (see “About squeezing deleted
documents” on page 99).
-nosave
Specifies that a work list, which is generated by the mkvdk utility automatically when
you use the
-extract option, will not be saved in the collection directory in a file called
worklist (in the Verity bulk submit file format). By default, the mkvdk utility saves the
worklist in the worklist file.
-nosubmit
Specifies that a work list, which is generated by the mkvdk utility automatically when
you use the
-extract option, will not be submitted to the indexing engine and will be
saved in the collection directory in a file called worklist (in the Verity bulk submit file
format). This option allows the mkvdk utility to process field extraction separately from
other indexing tasks.