> I spent some time with ChatGPT and Google, looking for a simple CLI method > to explore the content. I see mention of Luke, but it seems very dated.
Luke is your best bet. There is no command-line tool to "explore the content" because Lucene indexes are fairly low level. I'm guessing you'd like to explore the content of stored fields (and not indexes or position/offset data). If this is the case then I'm sure ChatGPT can spit out a snippet of code to read an index and dump stored fields to stdout. For anything more advanced, you'll have to write Java code and traverse the data structures of interest. Dawid