1 <h1>NOTMUCH-COUNT(1)</h1>
5 notmuch-count - count messages matching the given search terms
10 <b>notmuch</b> <b>count</b> [<u>options</u>... ] <<u>search-term</u>>...
15 Count messages matching the search terms.
17 The number of matching messages (or threads) is output to stdout.
19 With no search terms, a count of all messages (or threads) in the data-
20 base will be displayed.
22 See <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(7) for details of the supported syntax for
25 Supported options for <b>count</b> include
27 <b>--output=(messages|threads)</b>
31 Output the number of matching messages. This is the
36 Output the number of matching threads.
38 <b>--exclude=(true|false)</b>
40 Specify whether to omit messages matching search.tag_exclude
41 from the count (the default) or not.
45 Read queries from a file (stdin by default), one per line, and
46 output the number of matching messages (or threads) to stdout,
47 one per line. On an empty input line the count of all messages
48 (or threads) in the database will be output. This option is not
49 compatible with specifying search terms on the command line.
51 <b>--input=</b><filename>
53 Read input from given file, instead of from stdin. Implies
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61 <a href='../notmuch-search-1/'>notmuch-search</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/'>notmuch-</a>
62 <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>tag</a>(1)