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.SH NAME
-slapindex \- SLAPD index to LDIF utility
+slapindex \- Reindex entries in a SLAPD database
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B SBINDIR/slapindex
.B [\-b suffix]
indices based upon the current contents of a database.
It opens the given database determined by the database number or
suffix and updates the indices for all values of all attributes
-of all entries.
+of all entries. If a list of specific attributes is provided
+on the command line, only the indices for those attributes will
+be regenerated.
Databases configured as
.B subordinate
of this one are also re-indexed, unless \fB-g\fP is specified.