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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. Valid flags: auto_multiword_synonyms, auto_synonyms, boolean, boolean_any_case, cjk_ngram, default, lovehate, partial, phrase, pure_not, spelling_correction, synonym, wildcard

-o, –default-op=OP

specify QueryParser default operator (default: or). Valid operators: and, elite_set, near, or, phrase, synonym

-w, –weight=SCHEME

specify weighting scheme to use (default: bm25). Valid schemes: bm25, bool, trad

-h, –help

display this help and exit

-v, –version

output version information and exit