<h1>NOTMUCH-SEARCH(1)</h1>
<h2>NAME</h2>
-
<pre>
- notmuch-search - Search for messages matching the given search terms.
+ notmuch-search - search for messages matching the given search terms
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<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
-
<pre>
- <b>notmuch</b> <b>search</b> [<u>options</u>...] <<u>search-term</u>>...
+ <b>notmuch</b> <b>search</b> [<u>option</u> ...] <<u>search-term</u>> ...
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<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
-
<pre>
Search for messages matching the given search terms, and display as
results the threads containing the matched messages.
-</pre>
-<pre>
The output consists of one line per thread, giving a thread ID, the
date of the newest (or oldest, depending on the sort option) matched
- message in the thread, the number of matched messages and total mes-
+ message in the thread, the number of matched messages and total mes‐
sages in the thread, the names of all participants in the thread, and
the subject of the newest (or oldest) message.
-</pre>
-<pre>
- See <b>notmuch-search-terms</b>(7) for details of the supported syntax for
- <search-terms>.
-</pre>
+ See <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(7) for details of the supported syntax for
+ <search-terms>.
-<pre>
Supported options for <b>search</b> include
-</pre>
-
-<pre>
- <b>--format=</b>(<b>json</b>|<b>text</b>)
-</pre>
-
-<pre>
- Presents the results in either JSON or plain-text (default).
-</pre>
-
-<pre>
- <b>--output=(summary|threads|messages|files|tags)</b>
-</pre>
-
-<pre>
- <b>summary</b>
-</pre>
-
-<pre>
- Output a summary of each thread with any message matching
- the search terms. The summary includes the thread ID, date,
- the number of messages in the thread (both the number
- matched and the total number), the authors of the thread
- and the subject.
-</pre>
-
-<pre>
- <b>threads</b>
-</pre>
-
-<pre>
- Output the thread IDs of all threads with any message
- matching the search terms, either one per line (--for-
- mat=text) or as a JSON array (--format=json).
-</pre>
-
-<pre>
- <b>messages</b>
-</pre>
-
-<pre>
- Output the message IDs of all messages matching the search
- terms, either one per line (--format=text) or as a JSON
- array (--format=json).
-</pre>
-<pre>
- <b>files</b>
-</pre>
-
-<pre>
- Output the filenames of all messages matching the search
- terms, either one per line (--format=text) or as a JSON
- array (--format=json).
-</pre>
-
-<pre>
- <b>tags</b>
-</pre>
-
-<pre>
- Output all tags that appear on any message matching the
- search terms, either one per line (--format=text) or as a
- JSON array (--format=json).
-</pre>
-
-<pre>
- <b>--sort=</b>(<b>newest-first</b>|<b>oldest-first</b>)
-</pre>
-
-<pre>
- This option can be used to present results in either chronolog-
- ical order (<b>oldest-first</b>) or reverse chronological order (<b>new-</b>
- <b>est-first</b>).
-</pre>
-
-<pre>
- Note: The thread order will be distinct between these two
- options (beyond being simply reversed). When sorting by <b>old-</b>
- <b>est-first</b> the threads will be sorted by the oldest message in
- each thread, but when sorting by <b>newest-first</b> the threads will
- be sorted by the newest message in each thread.
-</pre>
-
-<pre>
- By default, results will be displayed in reverse chronological
- order, (that is, the newest results will be displayed first).
-</pre>
-
-<pre>
- <b>--offset=[-]N</b>
-</pre>
-
-<pre>
- Skip displaying the first N results. With the leading '-',
- start at the Nth result from the end.
-</pre>
-
-<pre>
- <b>--limit=N</b>
-</pre>
-
-<pre>
- Limit the number of displayed results to N.
+ <b>--format=(json|sexp|text|text0)</b>
+ Presents the results in either JSON, S-Expressions, newline
+ character separated plain-text (default), or null character
+ separated plain-text (compatible with <b>xargs</b>(1) -0 option
+ where available).
+
+ <b>--format-version=N</b>
+ Use the specified structured output format version. This is
+ intended for programs that invoke <a href='../notmuch-1/'>notmuch</a>(1) internally. If
+ omitted, the latest supported version will be used.
+
+ <b>--output=(summary|threads|messages|files|tags)</b>
+
+ <b>summary</b>
+ Output a summary of each thread with any message matching
+ the search terms. The summary includes the thread ID,
+ date, the number of messages in the thread (both the num‐
+ ber matched and the total number), the authors of the
+ thread and the subject.
+
+ <b>threads</b>
+ Output the thread IDs of all threads with any message
+ matching the search terms, either one per line (--for‐
+ mat=text), separated by null characters (--format=text0),
+ as a JSON array (--format=json), or an S-Expression list
+ (--format=sexp).
+
+ <b>messages</b>
+ Output the message IDs of all messages matching the
+ search terms, either one per line (--format=text), sepa‐
+ rated by null characters (--format=text0), as a JSON
+ array (--format=json), or as an S-Expression list (--for‐
+ mat=sexp).
+
+ <b>files</b> Output the filenames of all messages matching the search
+ terms, either one per line (--format=text), separated by
+ null characters (--format=text0), as a JSON array (--for‐
+ mat=json), or as an S-Expression list (--format=sexp).
+
+ Note that each message may have multiple filenames asso‐
+ ciated with it. All of them are included in the output
+ (unless limited with the --duplicate=N option). This may
+ be particularly confusing for <b>folder:</b> or <b>path:</b> searches
+ in a specified directory, as the messages may have dupli‐
+ cates in other directories that are included in the out‐
+ put, although these files alone would not match the
+ search.
+
+ <b>tags</b> Output all tags that appear on any message matching the
+ search terms, either one per line (--format=text), sepa‐
+ rated by null characters (--format=text0), as a JSON
+ array (--format=json), or as an S-Expression list (--for‐
+ mat=sexp).
+
+ <b>--sort=(newest-first|oldest-first)</b>
+ This option can be used to present results in either chrono‐
+ logical order (<b>oldest-first</b>) or reverse chronological order
+ (<b>newest-first</b>).
+
+ Note: The thread order will be distinct between these two
+ options (beyond being simply reversed). When sorting by <b>old-</b>
+ <b>est-first</b> the threads will be sorted by the oldest message in
+ each thread, but when sorting by <b>newest-first</b> the threads
+ will be sorted by the newest message in each thread.
+
+ By default, results will be displayed in reverse chronologi‐
+ cal order, (that is, the newest results will be displayed
+ first).
+
+ <b>--offset=[-]N</b>
+ Skip displaying the first N results. With the leading '-',
+ start at the Nth result from the end.
+
+ <b>--limit=N</b>
+ Limit the number of displayed results to N.
+
+ <b>--exclude=(true|false|all|flag)</b>
+ A message is called "excluded" if it matches at least one tag
+ in search.tag_exclude that does not appear explicitly in the
+ search terms. This option specifies whether to omit excluded
+ messages in the search process.
+
+ The default value, <b>true</b>, prevents excluded messages from
+ matching the search terms.
+
+ <b>all</b> additionally prevents excluded messages from appearing in
+ displayed results, in effect behaving as though the excluded
+ messages do not exist.
+
+ <b>false</b> allows excluded messages to match search terms and
+ appear in displayed results. Excluded messages are still
+ marked in the relevant outputs.
+
+ <b>flag</b> only has an effect when <b>--output=summary</b>. The output is
+ almost identical to <b>false</b>, but the "match count" is the num‐
+ ber of matching non-excluded messages in the thread, rather
+ than the number of matching messages.
+
+ <b>--duplicate=N</b>
+ For <b>--output=files</b>, output the Nth filename associated with
+ each message matching the query (N is 1-based). If N is
+ greater than the number of files associated with the message,
+ don't print anything.
+
+ For <b>--output=messages</b>, only output message IDs of messages
+ matching the search terms that have at least N filenames
+ associated with them.
+
+ Note that this option is orthogonal with the <b>folder:</b> search
+ prefix. The prefix matches messages based on filenames. This
+ option filters filenames of the matching messages.
+</pre>
+
+<h2>EXIT STATUS</h2>
+<pre>
+ This command supports the following special exit status codes
+
+ <b>20</b> The requested format version is too old.
+
+ <b>21</b> The requested format version is too new.
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+<h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
<pre>
- <b>--exclude=(true|false|flag)</b>
+ <a href='../notmuch-1/'>notmuch</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-config-1/'>notmuch-config</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-count-1/'>notmuch-count</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-dump-1/'>notmuch-dump</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>not‐</a>
+ <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>much-hooks</a>(5), <a href='../notmuch-insert-1/'>notmuch-insert</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-new-1/'>notmuch-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-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(7), <a href='../notmuch-show-1/'>notmuch-show</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>not‐</a>
+ <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>much-tag</a>(1) <a href='../notmuch-address-1/'>notmuch-address</a>(1)
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+<h2>AUTHOR</h2>
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- Specify whether to omit messages matching search.tag_exclude
- from the search results (the default) or not. The extra option
- <b>flag</b> only has an effect when <b>--output=summary</b> In this case all
- matching threads are returned but the "match count" is the num-
- ber of matching non-excluded messages in the thread.
+ Carl Worth and many others
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-<h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
-
+<h2>COPYRIGHT</h2>
<pre>
- <b>notmuch</b>(1), <b>notmuch-config</b>(1), <b>notmuch-count</b>(1), <b>notmuch-dump</b>(1), <b>not-</b>
- <b>much-hooks</b>(5), <b>notmuch-new</b>(1), <b>notmuch-reply</b>(1), <b>notmuch-restore</b>(1),
- <b>notmuch-search-terms</b>(7), <b>notmuch-show</b>(1), <b>notmuch-tag</b>(1)
+ 2014, Carl Worth and many others
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-<h1>Notmuch 0.13.2</h1>
+<h2>0.20.1</h2>
projects / notmuch-wiki / blobdiff