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
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 <b>--output=(messages|threads|files)</b>
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 mes-
42 sages due to duplicates (i.e. multiple files having the
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, and
53 output the number of matching messages (or threads) to stdout,
54 one per line. On an empty input line the count of all messages
55 (or threads) in the database will be output. This option is not
56 compatible with specifying search terms on the command line.
58 <b>--input=</b><filename>
60 Read input from given file, instead of from stdin. Implies
66 <a href='../notmuch-1/'>notmuch</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-config-1/'>notmuch-config</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-dump-1/'>notmuch-dump</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>notmuch-hooks</a>(5), <a href='../notmuch-insert-1/'>not-</a>
67 <a href='../notmuch-insert-1/'>much-insert</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-new-1/'>notmuch-new</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-reply-1/'>notmuch-reply</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-restore-1/'>notmuch-restore</a>(1),
68 <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>
69 <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>tag</a>(1)