From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/8] man: document notmuch search --duplicate=N
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 15:11:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fbe62d787c8acb242aa29a3f0c0790e89951bf84.1376741447.git.jani@nikula.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1376741447.git.jani@nikula.org>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1376741447.git.jani@nikula.org>
Document the notmuch search --duplicate=N option.
---
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 2d6ecaf..f69a4cd 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:[~2013-08-17 12:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-17 12:11 [PATCH v3 0/8] cli: better tooling support for duplicate messages Jani Nikula
2013-08-17 12:11 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] cli: add --duplicate=N option to notmuch search Jani Nikula
2013-08-17 12:11 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] test: test notmuch search --duplicate=N Jani Nikula
2013-08-17 12:11 ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2013-08-17 12:11 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] cli: add --output=files option to notmuch count Jani Nikula
2013-08-17 12:11 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] test: test notmuch count --output=files Jani Nikula
2013-08-17 12:11 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] man: document " Jani Nikula
2013-08-17 12:11 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] NEWS: cli options for improved duplicate message handling Jani Nikula
2013-08-17 13:36 ` Tomi Ollila
[not found] ` <cover.1376830237.git.jani@nikula.org>
2013-08-18 12:52 ` [PATCH v4 " Jani Nikula
2013-08-17 12:11 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] man: clarify folder: prefix regarding duplicate files Jani Nikula
2013-08-21 19:53 ` [PATCH v3 0/8] cli: better tooling support for duplicate messages Tomi Ollila
2013-08-24 7:50 ` Mark Walters
2013-08-24 9:51 ` David Bremner
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