XAPIAN-QUEST(1)                  User Commands                 XAPIAN-QUEST(1)

NAME
       xapian-quest - Xapian command line search tool

SYNOPSIS
       xapian-quest [OPTIONS] 'QUERY'

DESCRIPTION
       xapian-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).  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

       -S, --stem-strategy=STRATEGY
              set the stemming strategy (default: some).  Valid strategies:
              all, all_z, none, some, some_full_pos

       -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, 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

       -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, which can include parameters,
              e.g.  --weight='bm25 1 0 0 1 0' (default: bm25).

       -F, --freqs
              show query term frequencies

       -h, --help
              display this help and exit

       -v, --version
              output version information and exit

xapian-core 2.0.0                 March 2026                   XAPIAN-QUEST(1)