NAME

       quest - Xapian command line search tool

SYNOPSIS

       quest [OPTIONS] 'QUERY'

DESCRIPTION

       quest - Xapian command line search tool

       NB: QUERY should be quoted to protect it from the shell.

OPTIONS

       -d, --db=DIRECTORY
              database to search (multiple databases may be specified)

       -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)

       -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: accumulate, auto_multiword_synonyms,
              auto_synonyms, boolean, boolean_any_case, cjk_ngram,  default,  lovehate,  no_positions,  partial,
              phrase, pure_not, spelling_correction, synonym, wildcard

       -o, --default-op=OP
              specify  QueryParser  default operator (default: or).  Valid operators: and, elite_set, max, near,
              or, phrase, synonym

       -w, --weight=SCHEME
              specify weighting scheme to use (default: bm25).  Valid schemes: bb2, bm25,  bm25+,  bool,  coord,
              dlh, dph, ifb2, ineb2, inl2, lm, pl2, pl2+, tfidf, trad

       -F, --freqs
              show query term frequencies

       -h, --help
              display this help and exit

       -v, --version
              output version information and exit

xapian-core 1.4.22                                February 2023                                         QUEST(1)