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NAME

quest - Xapian command line search tool

SYNOPSIS

quest [OPTIONS] 'QUERY'

DESCRIPTION

quest - Xapian command line search tool

NB: QUERY should be quoted to protect it from the shell.

OPTIONS

-d, --db=DIRECTORY
database to search (multiple databases may be specified)

-m, --msize=MSIZE
maximum number of matches to return

-c, --check-at-least=HOWMANY
minimum number of matches to check

-s, --stemmer=LANG
set the stemming language, the default is 'english' (pass
'none' to disable stemming)

-p, --prefix=PFX:TERMPFX
add a prefix

-b, --boolean-prefix=PFX:TERMPFX
add a boolean prefix

-f, --flags=FLAG1[,FLAG2]...
specify QueryParser flags (default: default). Valid flags:
accumulate, auto_multiword_synonyms, auto_synonyms, boolean,
boolean_any_case, cjk_ngram, default, lovehate, ngrams,
no_positions, partial, phrase, pure_not, spelling_correction,
synonym, wildcard

-o, --default-op=OP
specify QueryParser default operator (default: or). Valid
operators: and, elite_set, max, near, or, phrase, synonym

-w, --weight=SCHEME
specify weighting scheme to use (default: bm25). Valid
schemes: bb2, bm25, bm25+, bool, coord, dlh, dph, ifb2, ineb2,
inl2, lm, pl2, pl2+, tfidf, trad

-F, --freqs
show query term frequencies

-h, --help
display this help and exit

-v, --version
output version information and exit

xapian-core 1.4.25 March 2024 QUEST(1)