Motivation extract was developed to be able to index non-text files in proprietary formats such as Microsoft Office documents. Users who do not need to index such documents shouldn't have to pay the performance penalty for doing the extra checks for PostScript and hex data. Long option names may be abbreviated so long as the abbreviation is unambiguous. The name of the configuration file, c, to use. A filename pattern or patterns, p, of files to extract text from.
Case is significant.
A filename pattern or patterns, p, of files not to extract text from. Case is significant. Extract a single file to standard output and exit. The default is not to follow them. The default is to extract the files in sub directories recursively.