PINOT-SEARCH(1)

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version 1.24 · 5 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

okay bestie, welcome to the pinot-search manual page, part of the User Commands crew ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

pinot-search — query search engines from the command-line 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pinot-search [OPTIONS] SEARCHENGINETYPE
SEARCHENGINENAME|SEARCHENGINEOPTION QUERYINPUT

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

ModuleFactory::loadModules: xapian is supported by libxapianbackend.so

pinot-search — query search engines from the command-line 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

so here's the menu, no cap 🍓

  • -d, --datefirst — sort by date first, then by relevance. date girlies rise up 🗓️
  • -h, --help — display this help and exit. literally the "what is happening" button 🫶
  • -l, --locationonly — only show the location of each result. no extra noise, just the location periodt 📍
  • -m, --max — maximum number of results (default 10) 🔢
  • -r, --storedquery — query input is the name of a stored query. so you just say the name, iconic 💅
  • -s, --stemming — stemming language (in English) 🌈
  • -c, --tocsv — file to export results in CSV format to 📄
  • -x, --toxml — file to export results in XML format to 📦
  • -v, --version — output version information and exit 👑

Supported search engine types are: 'opensearch' 'sherlock' 'xapian' — that's the whole squad fr fr 🔥

💜 EXAMPLES 💜

here's the vibe, bestie, copy-paste away 🧚

pinot-search opensearch /usr/share/pinot/engines/KrustyDescription.xml
"clowns"
pinot-search --max 20 sherlock /usr/share/pinot/engines/Bozo.src
"clowns"
pinot-search xapian ~/.pinot/index "label:Clowns"
pinot-search --stemming english xapian somehostname:12345 "clowning"

🙈 REPORTING BUGS 🙈

found a bug? do NOT suffer in silence, tell the people: report bugs to fabrice.colin@gmail.com 📬

This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

lowkey important: there is NO WARRANTY bestie, to the extent permitted by law. read it and weep 😭

that's the whole page, you ate it up 💅 source: pinot 1.24, May 2026 — mwah, go query something iconic 🎀✨

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