1 <h1>NOTMUCH-COUNT(1)</h1>
5 notmuch-count - count messages matching the given search terms
10 <b>notmuch</b> <b>count</b> [<u>options</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
20 database 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
27 <b>--output=(messages|threads)</b>
31 Output the number of matching messages. This is the
36 Output the number of matching threads.
38 <b>--exclude=(true|false)</b>
40 Specify whether to omit messages matching search.tag_exclude
41 from the count (the default) or not.
46 <a href='../notmuch-1/'>notmuch</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-config-1/'>notmuch-config</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-dump-1/'>notmuch-dump</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>notmuch-hooks</a>(5), <a href='../notmuch-new-1/'>not-</a>
47 <a href='../notmuch-new-1/'>much-new</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-reply-1/'>notmuch-reply</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-restore-1/'>notmuch-restore</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-search-1/'>notmuch-search</a>(1),
48 <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(7), <a href='../notmuch-show-1/'>notmuch-show</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>notmuch-tag</a>(1)