1 <h1>NOTMUCH-COUNT(1)</h1>
5 notmuch-count - count messages matching the given search terms
10 <b>notmuch</b> <b>count</b> [<u>option</u> ...] <<u>search-term</u>> ...
15 Count messages matching the search terms.
17 The number of matching messages (or threads) is output to stdout.
19 With no search terms, a count of all messages (or threads) in the data‐
20 base will be displayed.
22 See <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(7) for details of the supported syntax for
25 Supported options for <b>count</b> include
26 <b>--output=(messages|threads|files)</b>
29 Output the number of matching messages. This is the
33 Output the number of matching threads.
35 <b>files</b> Output the number of files associated with matching mes‐
36 sages. This may be bigger than the number of matching
37 messages due to duplicates (i.e. multiple files having
40 <b>--exclude=(true|false)</b>
41 Specify whether to omit messages matching search.tag_exclude
42 from the count (the default) or not.
45 Read queries from a file (stdin by default), one per line,
46 and output the number of matching messages (or threads) to
47 stdout, one per line. On an empty input line the count of all
48 messages (or threads) in the database will be output. This
49 option is not compatible with specifying search terms on the
53 Append lastmod (counter for number of database updates) and
54 UUID to the output. lastmod values are only comparable
55 between databases with the same UUID.
57 <b>--input=<filename></b>
58 Read input from given file, instead of from stdin. Implies
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