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### 1.1 Introduction

The easiest way to understand how to use Amberfish is to index and search a small group of text files.

The process of indexing creates a set of files that collectively are referred to in this document as a database. Once the database has been created, the original text can be searched via the database. The `af` tool performs both of these tasks as well as others.