1 <h1>NOTMUCH-COUNT(1)</h1>
5 notmuch-count - count messages matching the given search terms
10 <b>notmuch</b> <b>count</b> [<u>option</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
20 database 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 --output=(messages|threads|files)
31 Output the number of matching messages. This is the
36 Output the number of matching threads.
40 Output the number of files associated with matching mes-
41 sages. This may be bigger than the number of matching
42 messages due to duplicates (i.e. multiple files having
45 <b>--exclude=(true|false)</b>
47 Specify whether to omit messages matching search.tag_exclude
48 from the count (the default) or not.
52 Read queries from a file (stdin by default), one per line,
53 and output the number of matching messages (or threads) to
54 stdout, one per line. On an empty input line the count of
55 all messages (or threads) in the database will be output.
56 This option is not compatible with specifying search terms
59 <b>--input=<filename></b>
61 Read input from given file, instead of from stdin. Implies
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69 <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/'>not-</a>
70 <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>much-tag</a>(1)
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80 2014, Carl Worth and many others