The
.BR dump " and " restore
commands can be used to create a textual dump of email tags for backup
-purposes, and to restore from that dump
+purposes, and to restore from that dump.
.RS 4
.TP 4
.BR restore " <filename>"
Restores the tags from the given file (see
-.BR "notmuch dump" "."
+.BR "notmuch dump" ")."
+
+The input is read from the given filename, if any, or from stdin.
Note: The dump file format is specifically chosen to be
compatible with the format of files produced by sup-dump.