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@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
SYNOPSIS
- notmuch dump [--format=(sup|batch-tag)] [--] [ --output=<filename> ]
- [--] [ <search-term>...]
+ notmuch dump [--gzip] [--format=(batch-tag|sup)] [--output=<file>] [--]
+ [<search-term> ...]
DESCRIPTION
@@ -18,61 +18,76 @@
Output is to the given filename, if any, or to stdout.
These tags are the only data in the notmuch database that can't be
- recreated from the messages themselves. The output of notmuch dump is
+ recreated from the messages themselves. The output of notmuch dump is
therefore the only critical thing to backup (and much more friendly to
incremental backup than the native database files.)
- --format=(sup|batch-tag)
-
- Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, both with one
- message-id per line, followed by a list of tags.
-
- sup The sup dump file format is specifically chosen to be compati-
- ble with the format of files produced by sup-dump. So if
- you've previously been using sup for mail, then the notmuch
- restore command provides you a way to import all of your tags
- (or labels as sup calls them). Each line has the following
- form
-
- <message-id> ( <tag> ... )
-
- with zero or more tags are separated by spaces. Note that (mal-
- formed) message-ids may contain arbitrary non-null characters.
- Note also that tags with spaces will not be correctly restored
- with this format.
-
- batch-tag
-
- The batch-tag dump format is intended to more robust against
- malformed message-ids and tags containing whitespace or non-
- ascii(7) characters. Each line has the form
-
- +<encoded-tag> +<encoded-tag> ... -- id:<quoted-message-id>
-
- Tags are hex-encoded by replacing every byte not matching the
- regex [A-Za-z0-9@=.,_+-] with %nn where nn is the two digit hex
- encoding. The message ID is a valid Xapian query, quoted using
- Xapian boolean term quoting rules: if the ID contains whites-
- pace or a close paren or starts with a double quote, it must be
- enclosed in double quotes and double quotes inside the ID must
- be doubled. The astute reader will notice this is a special
- case of the batch input format for notmuch-tag(1); note that
- the single message-id query is mandatory for notmuch-
- restore(1).
+ See notmuch-search-terms(7) for details of the supported syntax for
+ <search-terms>. With no search terms, a dump of all messages in the
+ database will be generated. A "--" argument instructs notmuch that the
+ remaining arguments are search terms.
+
+ Supported options for dump include
+
+ --gzip Compress the output in a format compatible with gzip(1).
+
+ --format=(sup|batch-tag)
+ Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, both
+ with one message-id per line, followed by a list of tags.
+
+ batch-tag
+ The default batch-tag dump format is intended to more
+ robust against malformed message-ids and tags containing
+ whitespace or non-ascii(7) characters. Each line has the
+ form
+ +<encoded-tag> +<encoded-tag> ... -- id:<quoted-mesâ
+ sage-id>
+
+ Tags are hex-encoded by replacing every byte not matching
+ the regex [A-Za-z0-9@=.,_+-] with %nn where nn is the two
+ digit hex encoding. The message ID is a valid Xapian
+ query, quoted using Xapian boolean term quoting rules: if
+ the ID contains whitespace or a close paren or starts
+ with a double quote, it must be enclosed in double quotes
+ and double quotes inside the ID must be doubled. The
+ astute reader will notice this is a special case of the
+ batch input format for notmuch-tag(1); note that the sinâ
+ gle message-id query is mandatory for notmuch-restore(1).
+
+ sup
+ The sup dump file format is specifically chosen to be
+ compatible with the format of files produced by sup-dump.
+ So if you've previously been using sup for mail, then the
+ notmuch restore command provides you a way to import all
+ of your tags (or labels as sup calls them). Each line has
+ the following form
+ <message-id> ( <tag> ... )
+
+ with zero or more tags are separated by spaces. Note that
+ (malformed) message-ids may contain arbitrary non-null
+ characters. Note also that tags with spaces will not be
+ correctly restored with this format.
+
+ --output=<filename>
+ Write output to given file instead of stdout.
+
- With no search terms, a dump of all messages in the database will
- be generated. A "--" argument instructs notmuch that the remaining
- arguments are search terms.
+SEE ALSO
+
+ notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-hooks(5), notâ
+ much-insert(1), notmuch-new(1), notmuch-reply(1), notmuch-restore(1),
+ notmuch-search(1), notmuch-search-terms(7), notmuch-show(1), notâ
+ much-tag(1)
+
- See notmuch-search-terms(7) for details of the supported syntax for
- <search-terms>.
+AUTHOR
+
+ Carl Worth and many others
-SEE ALSO
+COPYRIGHT
- notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-hooks(5), not-
- much-new(1), notmuch-reply(1), notmuch-restore(1), notmuch-search(1),
- notmuch-search-terms(7), notmuch-show(1), notmuch-tag(1)
+ 2009-2016, Carl Worth and many others
-Notmuch 0.15.2
+0.22