QUEST(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, this is quest(1) from the User Commands section — the Xapian command line search tool. That's the whole vibe: you hand it a query, it goes searching through Xapian databases. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

quest [OPTIONS] 'QUERY'

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

quest — Xapian command line search tool. That's literally the whole point, and it ate.

NB: QUERY should be quoted to protect it from the shell. fr fr, quote it so your shell doesn't snatch it. 🫶

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -d, --db=DIRECTORY — the database directory to search. You can specify multiple databases, bestie. multiple. 😌
• -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. iconic little off switch. ✨
• -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 are: 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. pick your little flag combo, queen. 🎀
• -o, --default-op=OP — specify the QueryParser default operator. Default: or. Valid operators are: and, elite_set, max, near, or, phrase, synonym. yes, elite_set is really in there. 😭
• -w, --weight=SCHEME — specify the weighting scheme to use. Default: bm25. Valid schemes are: bb2, bm25, bm25+, bool, coord, dlh, dph, ifb2, ineb2, inl2, lm, pl2, pl2+, tfidf, trad. so many schemes, so little time. 💀
• -F, --freqs — show query term frequencies. periodt.
• -h, --help — display this help and exit.
• -v, --version — output version information and exit.

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