CQSEARCH(1)

💖 CQSEARCH(1) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because cqsearch(1) is literally the moment. it builds you a codequery database, and once you've got one you can search your codebase like it's a group chat and you're scrolling for receipts. no cap. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

cqsearch — create codequery database 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

cqsearch [-s <sqdbfile> [-p <n>] [-t <term>] -[e|f] ] [-d] [-v] [-h]

that's the whole vibe right there, bestie. the -s block is where all the magic happens, and everything outside the brackets is the lil side quests. 🌸

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -s — the path to your CodeQuery sqlite3 db file. this is the destination for the whole operation, the main character, the reason we're here 🫶
• -p <n> — n is a number, and the number picks what kind of search you're doing. it's giving "choose your own adventure" but for symbols. here's the whole menu, don't skip any of them:
  • 1 — Symbol (this is the default, so if you don't say anything, this is what you get) ⭐
  • 2 — Function or macro definition
  • 3 — Class or struct
  • 4 — Files including this file
  • 5 — Full file path
  • 6 — Functions calling this function
  • 7 — Functions called by this function
  • 8 — Calls of this function or macro
  • 9 — Members and methods of this class
  • 10 — Class which owns this member or method
  • 11 — Children of this class (inheritance)
  • 12 — Parent of this class (inheritance)
  • 13 — Functions or macros inside this file
• -t — your search term. heads up: no spaces allowed in it if Exact Match is switched off. wild card searches are possible, so you can use * and ? and let the algorithm cook 🔥
• -e — Exact Match switched ON. case-sensitive. she's picky and she knows it 💅
• -f — Exact Match switched OFF, aka fuzzy search. case-insensitive, and wild card search is on the table. this one is the default btw 💜
• -d — debug 🌈
• -v — version
• -h — help 🙈

okay so the combinations that are actually possible are -s -t -e and -s -t -f. and the extra optional argument you can toss in on top of those is -d. don't freestyle with combos, bestie, she said what she said 🎀

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🦋 COPYRIGHT 🦋

Copyright 2013-2015 ruben2020 https://github.com/ruben2020/

Website: https://github.com/ruben2020/codequery

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

This manual page was written by ChangZhuo Chen <czchen@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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and that's the whole page, periodt 💖 this one's from the manual for CQSEARCH(1) and it's dated 02/03/2026 — go forth and build those databases, you absolute icon 👑✨