FM-index executables

Here you can find the Gnu/Linux and Windows executables of the FM-index tool: bwi is used for compression/decompression, bwsearch is used for substring searching in the compressed files. Typical usages are:

• bwi myfile
  (creates myfile.bwi which is the compressed index)
• bwsearch foo myfile.bwi
  (counts # of occurrences of foo in myfile)
• bwsearch -l foo myfile.bwi
  (finds the positions of the occurrences of foo in myfile)
• bwsearch -r foo myfile.bwi
  (reports the positions of the occurrences of foo in myfile)
• bwsearch -s10 foo myfile.bwi
  (prints 10 characters surronding each occurrences of foo)
• bwi -d myfile.bwi
  (creates myfile.bwi.y which is a copy of the original file myfile)