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.TH XAPIAN-QUEST "1" "March 2026" "xapian-core 2.0.0" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
xapian-quest \- Xapian command line search tool
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B xapian-quest
[\fI\,OPTIONS\/\fR] \fI\,'QUERY'\/\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION
xapian\-quest \- Xapian command line search tool
.PP
NB: QUERY should be quoted to protect it from the shell.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-db\fR=\fI\,DIRECTORY\/\fR
database to search (multiple databases may
be specified)
.TP
\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-msize\fR=\fI\,MSIZE\/\fR
maximum number of matches to return
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-check\-at\-least\fR=\fI\,HOWMANY\/\fR
minimum number of matches to check
.TP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-stemmer\fR=\fI\,LANG\/\fR
set the stemming language, the default is
\&'english' (pass 'none' to disable stemming).
Valid stemmers:
arabic, armenian, basque, catalan, danish,
dutch, dutch_porter, earlyenglish, english,
esperanto, estonian, finnish, french,
german, greek, hindi, hungarian,
indonesian, irish, italian, lithuanian,
lovins, nepali, norwegian, polish, porter,
portuguese, romanian, russian, serbian,
spanish, swedish, tamil, turkish, yiddish
.TP
\fB\-S\fR, \fB\-\-stem\-strategy\fR=\fI\,STRATEGY\/\fR
set the stemming strategy (default: some).
Valid strategies:
all, all_z, none, some, some_full_pos
.TP
\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-prefix\fR=\fI\,PFX\/\fR:TERMPFX
add a prefix
.TP
\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-boolean\-prefix\fR=\fI\,PFX\/\fR:TERMPFX
add a boolean prefix
.TP
\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-flags\fR=\fI\,FLAG1[\/\fR,FLAG2]...
specify QueryParser flags (default:
default).  Valid flags:
accumulate, auto_multiword_synonyms,
auto_synonyms, boolean, boolean_any_case,
cjk_ngram, default, fuzzy, lovehate,
ngrams, no_positions,
no_proper_noun_heuristic, partial, phrase,
pure_not, spelling_correction, synonym,
wildcard, wildcard_glob, wildcard_multi,
wildcard_single, word_breaks
.TP
\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-default\-op\fR=\fI\,OP\/\fR
specify QueryParser default operator
(default: or).  Valid operators:
and, elite_set, max, near, or, phrase,
synonym
.TP
\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-weight\fR=\fI\,SCHEME\/\fR
specify weighting scheme to use, which
can include parameters, e.g.
\fB\-\-weight=\fR'bm25 1 0 0 1 0' (default: bm25).
.TP
\fB\-F\fR, \fB\-\-freqs\fR
show query term frequencies
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit