clean

Delete the search index.

Usage

mdvs clean [path]

Flags

Global flags (-o, -v, --logs) are described in Configuration.

What it does

clean deletes the .mdvs/ directory, which contains the Parquet files that make up the search index. The mdvs.toml configuration file is never touched — you can rebuild the index at any time with build.

The command is idempotent — running it when .mdvs/ doesn’t exist is a no-op. It also refuses to delete if .mdvs/ is a symlink, as a safety measure.

Output

Compact (default)

mdvs clean example_kb

Cleaned "example_kb/.mdvs"

When there’s nothing to clean:

Nothing to clean — "example_kb/.mdvs" does not exist

Verbose (-v)

Delete index: "example_kb/.mdvs" (2 files, 113.6 KB)

Cleaned "example_kb/.mdvs"

2 files | 113.6 KB

Verbose output shows the file count and total size of the deleted directory.

Exit codes

Errors