<h1>NOTMUCH-DUMP(1)</h1>
<h2>NAME</h2>
-
<pre>
- notmuch-dump - Creates a plain-text dump of the tags of each message.
+ notmuch-dump - creates a plain-text dump of the tags of each message
</pre>
<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
-
<pre>
- <b>notmuch</b> <b>dump</b> [ <<u>filename</u>> ] [--] [ <<u>search-term</u>>...]
+ <b>notmuch</b> <b>dump</b> [--gzip] [--format=(batch-tag|sup)] [--output=<<u>file</u>>] [--]
+ [<<u>search-term</u>> ...]
</pre>
<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
-
<pre>
Dump tags for messages matching the given search terms.
-</pre>
-<pre>
- Output is to the given filename, if any, or to stdout. Note that using
- the filename argument is deprecated.
-</pre>
+ Output is to the given filename, if any, or to stdout.
-<pre>
- 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
+ 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
therefore the only critical thing to backup (and much more friendly to
incremental backup than the native database files.)
+
+ See <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(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 <b>dump</b> include
+
+ <b>--gzip</b> Compress the output in a format compatible with <b>gzip</b>(1).
+
+ <b>--format=(sup|batch-tag)</b>
+ Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, both
+ with one message-id per line, followed by a list of tags.
+
+ <b>batch-tag</b>
+ The default <b>batch-tag</b> dump format is intended to more
+ robust against malformed message-ids and tags containing
+ whitespace or non-<b>ascii</b>(7) characters. Each line has the
+ form
+ +<<u>encoded-tag</u>> +<<u>encoded-tag</u>> ... -- id:<<u>quoted-mes‐</u>
+ <u>sage-id</u>>
+
+ Tags are hex-encoded by replacing every byte not matching
+ the regex <b>[A-Za-z0-9@=.,</b>_<b>+-]</b> with <b>%nn</b> 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 <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>notmuch-tag</a>(1); note that the sin‐
+ gle message-id query is mandatory for <a href='../notmuch-restore-1/'>notmuch-restore</a>(1).
+
+ <b>sup</b>
+ The <b>sup</b> 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
+ <b>notmuch</b> <b>restore</b> command provides you a way to import all
+ of your tags (or labels as sup calls them). Each line has
+ the following form
+ <<u>message-id</u>> <b>(</b> <<u>tag</u>> ... <b>)</b>
+
+ 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.
+
+ <b>--include=(config|properties|tags)</b>
+
+ Control what kind of metadata is included in the output.
+ <b>config</b>
+ Output configuration data stored in the database. Each line
+ starts with "#@ ", followed by a space separated key-value
+ pair. Both key and value are hex encoded if needed.
+
+ <b>properties</b>
+ Output per-message (key,value) metadata. Each line starts
+ with "#= ", followed by a message id, and a space separated
+ list of key=value pairs. pair. Ids, keys and values are hex
+ encoded if needed.
+
+ <b>tags</b>
+ Output per-message boolean metadata, namely tags. See <u>format</u>
+ above for description of the output.
+
+ The default is to include all available types of data. The
+ option can be specified multiple times to select some subset. As
+ of version 2 of the dump format, there is a header line of the
+ following form
+
+ #notmuch-dump <<u>format</u>>:<<u>version</u>> <<u>included</u>>
+
+ where <<u>included</u>> is a comma separated list of the above options.
+
+ <b>--output=<filename></b>
+ Write output to given file instead of stdout.
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+<h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
<pre>
- With no search terms, a dump of all messages in the database will be
- generated. A "--" argument instructs notmuch that the remaining argu-
- ments are search terms.
+ <a href='../notmuch-1/'>notmuch</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-config-1/'>notmuch-config</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-count-1/'>notmuch-count</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>notmuch-hooks</a>(5), <a href='../notmuch-insert-1/'>not‐</a>
+ <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),
+ <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>
+ <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>much-tag</a>(1)
</pre>
+<h2>AUTHOR</h2>
<pre>
- See <b>notmuch-search-terms</b>(7) for details of the supported syntax for
- <search-terms>.
+ Carl Worth and many others
</pre>
-<h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
-
+<h2>COPYRIGHT</h2>
<pre>
- <b>notmuch</b>(1), <b>notmuch-config</b>(1), <b>notmuch-count</b>(1), <b>notmuch-hooks</b>(5), <b>not-</b>
- <b>much-new</b>(1), <b>notmuch-reply</b>(1), <b>notmuch-restore</b>(1), <b>notmuch-search</b>(1),
- <b>notmuch-search-terms</b>(7), <b>notmuch-show</b>(1), <b>notmuch-tag</b>(1)
+ 2009-2016, Carl Worth and many others
</pre>
-<h1>Notmuch 0.13.2</h1>
+<h2>0.23.4</h2>
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