From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org, Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3] man: document notmuch search --duplicate=N
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:28:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1370881714-3303-1-git-send-email-jani@nikula.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e72d722da8706559142fcb3ea2626990b39192c5.1370775663.git.jani@nikula.org>
---
v3: clarify dupe vs. folder prefix per Mark's suggestion
---
man/man1/notmuch-search.1 | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
index 1c1e049..957b24b 100644
--- a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
+++ b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
@@ -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
--
1.7.10.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-10 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-09 11:03 [PATCH v2 0/7] cli: better tooling support for duplicate messages Jani Nikula
2013-06-09 11:03 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] cli: add --duplicate=N option to notmuch search Jani Nikula
2013-06-09 20:22 ` Mark Walters
2013-06-10 16:49 ` Jani Nikula
2013-06-10 15:57 ` [PATCH v3] " Jani Nikula
2013-06-09 11:03 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] test: test notmuch search --duplicate=N Jani Nikula
2013-06-09 11:03 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] man: document " Jani Nikula
2013-06-09 13:20 ` Mark Walters
2013-06-09 13:25 ` Mark Walters
2013-06-10 16:39 ` Jani Nikula
2013-06-10 16:28 ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2013-06-09 11:03 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] cli: add --output=files option to notmuch count Jani Nikula
2013-06-09 11:03 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] test: test notmuch count --output=files Jani Nikula
2013-06-09 11:03 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] man: document " Jani Nikula
2013-06-09 11:03 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] NEWS: cli options for improved duplicate message handling Jani Nikula
2013-06-10 15:30 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] cli: better tooling support for duplicate messages Tomi Ollila
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