NOTMUCH-TAG(1)

NAME

       notmuch-tag  -  add/remove  tags  for  all messages matching the search
       terms

SYNOPSIS

       notmuch tag [options ...] +<tag>|-<tag> [--] <search-term> ...

       notmuch tag --batch [--input=<filename>]

DESCRIPTION

       Add/remove tags for all messages matching the search terms.

       See notmuch-search-terms(7) for details of  the  supported  syntax  for
       <search-term>.

       Tags prefixed by '+' are added while those prefixed by '-' are removed.
       For each message, tag changes are applied in the order they  appear  on
       the command line.

       The  beginning  of the search terms is recognized by the first argument
       that begins with neither '+' nor '-'. Support  for  an  initial  search
       term  beginning  with  '+'  or  '-' is provided by allowing the user to
       specify a "--" argument to separate the tags from the search terms.

       notmuch tag updates the maildir flags according to tag changes  if  the
       maildir.synchronize_flags  configuration  option  is  enabled. See not‐
       much-config(1) for details.

       Supported options for tag include

          --remove-all
                 Remove all tags from each message matching the  search  terms
                 before  applying  the  tag  changes  appearing on the command
                 line.  This means setting the tags of  each  message  to  the
                 tags  to be added. If there are no tags to be added, the mes‐
                 sages will have no tags.

          --batch
                 Read batch tagging operations from a file (stdin by default).
                 This is more efficient than repeated notmuch tag invocations.
                 See TAG FILE FORMAT below for the input format.  This  option
                 is  not  compatible  with  specifying  tagging on the command
                 line.

          --input=<filename>
                 Read input from given file, instead of  from  stdin.  Implies
                 --batch.

TAG FILE FORMAT

       The input must consist of lines of the format:

       +<tag>|-<tag> [...] [--] <query>

       Each  line  is  interpreted similarly to notmuch tag command line argu‐
       ments. The delimiter is one or more spaces ' '. Any characters in <tag>
       may  be  hex-encoded  with %NN where NN is the hexadecimal value of the
       character. To hex-encode a character with a multi-byte UTF-8  encoding,
       hex-encode  each  byte. Any spaces in <tag> must be hex-encoded as %20.
       Any characters that are not part of <tag> must not be hex-encoded.

       In the future tag:"tag with spaces" style quoting may be supported  for
       <tag>  as  well;  for  this reason all double quote characters in <tag>
       should be hex-encoded.

       The <query> should be quoted using Xapian boolean term  quoting  rules:
       if  a term contains whitespace or a close paren or starts with a double
       quote, it must be enclosed in double quotes (not including any  prefix)
       and  double quotes inside the term must be doubled (see below for exam‐
       ples).

       Leading and trailing space ' ' is ignored. Empty lines and lines begin‐
       ning with '#' are ignored.

  EXAMPLE

       The  following shows a valid input to batch tagging. Note that only the
       isolated '*' acts as a wildcard. Also note the two  different  quotings
       of the tag space in tags

          +winner *
          +foo::bar%25 -- (One and Two) or (One and tag:winner)
          +found::it -- tag:foo::bar%
          # ignore this line and the next

          +space%20in%20tags -- Two
          # add tag '(tags)', among other stunts.
          +crazy{ +(tags) +&are +#possible\ -- tag:"space in tags"
          +match*crazy -- tag:crazy{
          +some_tag -- id:"this is ""nauty)"""

SEE ALSO

       notmuch(1),  notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-dump(1), not‐
       much-hooks(5),  notmuch-insert(1),  notmuch-new(1),   notmuch-reply(1),
       notmuch-restore(1),  notmuch-search(1),  notmuch-search-terms(7),  not‐
       much-show(1),

AUTHOR

       Carl Worth and many others

COPYRIGHT

       2009-2016, Carl Worth and many others

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