X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?p=notmuch-wiki;a=blobdiff_plain;f=manpages%2Fnotmuch-dump-1.mdwn;h=a1c613138bde8a1aac751f357998a08e82460f83;hp=00d8ef1005e33ed982941315a41f4c67d8942771;hb=e4734d2e839d916a78d295c76eff880574c327db;hpb=cf2df983cb6d13042694366be4aba76d4a98048b diff --git a/manpages/notmuch-dump-1.mdwn b/manpages/notmuch-dump-1.mdwn index 00d8ef1..a1c6131 100644 --- a/manpages/notmuch-dump-1.mdwn +++ b/manpages/notmuch-dump-1.mdwn @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@

SYNOPSIS

-       notmuch  dump  [--format=(batch-tag|sup)]  [--]  [--output=<file>] [--]
+       notmuch dump [--gzip] [--format=(batch-tag|sup)] [--output=<file>] [--]
        [<search-term> ...]
@@ -22,50 +22,54 @@ therefore the only critical thing to backup (and much more friendly to incremental backup than the native database files.) - --gzip Compress the output in a format compatible with gzip(1). + See notmuch-search-terms(7) for details of the supported syntax for + <search-terms>. With no search terms, a dump of all messages in the + database will be generated. A "--" argument instructs notmuch that the + remaining arguments are search terms. - --format=(sup|batch-tag) - Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, both with - one message-id per line, followed by a list of tags. + Supported options for dump include - batch-tag - The default batch-tag dump format is intended to more - robust against malformed message-ids and tags containing - whitespace or non-ascii(7) characters. Each line has the + --gzip Compress the output in a format compatible with gzip(1). + + --format=(sup|batch-tag) + Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, both + with one message-id per line, followed by a list of tags. + + batch-tag + The default batch-tag dump format is intended to more + robust against malformed message-ids and tags containing + whitespace or non-ascii(7) characters. Each line has the form - +<encoded-tag> +<encoded-tag> ... -- id:<quoted-mes‐ + +<encoded-tag> +<encoded-tag> ... -- id:<quoted-mes‐ sage-id> Tags are hex-encoded by replacing every byte not matching the regex [A-Za-z0-9@=.,_+-] with %nn where nn is the two - digit hex encoding. The message ID is a valid Xapian + digit hex encoding. The message ID is a valid Xapian query, quoted using Xapian boolean term quoting rules: if - the ID contains whitespace or a close paren or starts + the ID contains whitespace or a close paren or starts with a double quote, it must be enclosed in double quotes - and double quotes inside the ID must be doubled. The - astute reader will notice this is a special case of the + and double quotes inside the ID must be doubled. The + astute reader will notice this is a special case of the batch input format for notmuch-tag(1); note that the sin‐ gle message-id query is mandatory for notmuch-restore(1). - sup The sup dump file format is specifically chosen to be + sup + The sup dump file format is specifically chosen to be compatible with the format of files produced by sup-dump. So if you've previously been using sup for mail, then the - notmuch restore command provides you a way to import all + notmuch restore command provides you a way to import all of your tags (or labels as sup calls them). Each line has the following form <message-id> ( <tag> ... ) with zero or more tags are separated by spaces. Note that - (malformed) message-ids may contain arbitrary non-null - characters. Note also that tags with spaces will not be + (malformed) message-ids may contain arbitrary non-null + characters. Note also that tags with spaces will not be correctly restored with this format. - With no search terms, a dump of all messages in the database - will be generated. A "--" argument instructs notmuch that the - remaining arguments are search terms. - - See notmuch-search-terms(7) for details of the supported syntax - for <search-terms>. + --output=<filename> + Write output to given file instead of stdout.

SEE ALSO

@@ -86,4 +90,4 @@ 2014, Carl Worth and many others -

0.19

+

0.20.1