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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, ngrams,
              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 1.4.25                March 2024                          QUEST(1)