X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fman1%2Fnotmuch-search.1;h=55a81e79fce4ea8a0712781c480967e2bf2f43d9;hb=eb61cc78398712dc4cc8a4a3ed861ac074aa007e;hp=12067702123b2da9d2b1a3c4e1c99643e7a10ba4;hpb=1e690347a7dab5ca3e10ea80b75a20de9205981d;p=notmuch diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 index 12067702..55a81e79 100644 --- a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 +++ b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH NOTMUCH-SEARCH 1 2013-02-17 "Notmuch 0.15.2" +.TH NOTMUCH-SEARCH 1 2013-12-30 "Notmuch 0.17" .SH NAME notmuch-search \- search for messages matching the given search terms .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ Output the filenames of all messages matching the search terms, either one per line (\-\-format=text), separated by null characters (\-\-format=text0), as a JSON array (\-\-format=json), or as an S-Expression list (\-\-format=sexp). + +Note that each message may have multiple filenames associated with it. +All of them are included in the output, unless limited with the +\-\-duplicate=N option. .RE .RS 4 .TP 4 @@ -158,6 +162,22 @@ but the "match count" is the number of matching non-excluded messages in the thread, rather than the number of matching messages. .RE +.RS 4 +.TP 4 +.BR \-\-duplicate=N + +Effective with +.BR --output=files , +output the Nth filename associated with each message matching the +query (N is 1-based). If N is greater than the number of files +associated with the message, don't print anything. + +Note that this option is orthogonal with the +.BR folder: +search prefix. The prefix matches messages based on filenames. This +option filters filenames of the matching messages. +.RE + .SH EXIT STATUS This command supports the following special exit status codes