.TH PM-INDEX 1 2023-02-08 NCBI "NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual"
.SH NAME
pm\-index \- index a local NCBI PubMed archive
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBpm\-index\fP
\fIoutdir\fP
\fIdatadir\fP
[\|\fIextras\fP\|]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBpm\-index\fP indexes
the compressed NCBI PubMed XML files in the current directory
on the basis of auxiliary data (a MeSH tree) in \fIdatadir\fP,
producing corresponding compressed index files in \fIdir\fP.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fIextras\fP
Whether to index extra fields.
(\fBfalse\fP by default.)
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR archive\-pubmed (1),
.BR download\-ncbi\-data (1),
.BR download\-pubmed (1),
.BR index\-pubmed (1),
.BR pm\-collect (1),
.BR pm\-invert (1),
.BR xtract (1).