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quest(1)

Xapian command line search tool

NAME

quest - Xapian command line search tool

SYNOPSIS

quest [OPTIONS] 'QUERY'

DESCRIPTION

quest - Xapian command line search tool

NB: QUERY should be quoted to protect it from the shell.

OPTIONS

-d, --db=DIRECTORY

database to search (multiple databases may be specified)

-m, --msize=MSIZE

maximum number of matches to return

-c, --check-at-least=HOWMANY

minimum number of matches to check

-s, --stemmer=LANG

set the stemming language, the default is 'english' (pass 'none' to disable stemming)

-p, --prefix=PFX:TERMPFX

add a prefix

-b, --boolean-prefix=PFX:TERMPFX

add a boolean prefix

-f, --flags=FLAG1[,FLAG2]...

specify QueryParser flags (default: default). Valid flags: accumulate, auto_multiword_synonyms, auto_synonyms, boolean, boolean_any_case, cjk_ngram, default, lovehate, ngrams, no_positions, partial, phrase, pure_not, spelling_correction, synonym, wildcard

-o, --default-op=OP

specify QueryParser default operator (default: or). Valid operators: and, elite_set, max, near, or, phrase, synonym

-w, --weight=SCHEME

specify weighting scheme to use (default: bm25). Valid schemes: bb2, bm25, bm25+, bool, coord, dlh, dph, ifb2, ineb2, inl2, lm, pl2, pl2+, tfidf, trad

-F, --freqs

show query term frequencies

-h, --help

display this help and exit

-v, --version

output version information and exit

History

--boolean-prefix since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --check-at-least since Debian 8 (Jessie); --default-op since Debian 8 (Jessie); --flags since Debian 8 (Jessie); --freqs since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --prefix since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --stemmer since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --weight since Debian 8 (Jessie); -F since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -b since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -c since Debian 8 (Jessie); -f since Debian 8 (Jessie); -o since Debian 8 (Jessie); -p since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -s since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -w since Debian 8 (Jessie).