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beagle-query – search your personal information space

Synopsis

beagle-query [options] query

Description

beagle-query is used to search your personal information space via Beagle, on the command line. It is a command-line form of the beagle-search GNOME program.

Options

Search options

–max-hits: Reduce the number of search results returned per backend. The default is 100. Increasing this will slow down overall search speed.
–verbose: Print detailed information about each hit.
–cache: Show the entire cached text for each result. Only works with –verbose.
Note that for large documents this will produce extremely large output, so use this with uri queries or queries returning only a few results Not recommended for live-queries or stats-only queries.
–live-query: Enable live queries. This argument keeps beagle-query running, continuously feeding new matching hits as the system gets aware of them.
–stats-only: Show only statistics on the number of search results and how long it took to get them, and not the results themselves.

Other options

–keywords: Lists the keywords allowed in query. Keyword queries can be specified as keywordname:value e.g. ext:jpg
–help: Print the usage message.
–version: Print the version information.

Query

You can query for a word, several words or a quoted phrase. When several words are searched, only documents which contain all the words are matched. To specify a phrase, enclose it in shell-escaped quotes (\"search term\").

Besides these beagle supports an advanced query syntax. See http://beagle-project.org/Searching_Data#Search_Syntax for more information.

Author

Novell, Inc.

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to <dashboard-hackers [at] gnome.org>.

Copyright

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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