[PATCH v3] man: document notmuch search --duplicate=N

Jani Nikula jani at nikula.org
Mon Jun 10 09:28:34 PDT 2013


---

v3: clarify dupe vs. folder prefix per Mark's suggestion
---
 man/man1/notmuch-search.1 |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
index 1c1e049..957b24b 100644
--- a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
+++ b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ Output the filenames of all messages matching the search terms, either
 one per line (\-\-format=text), separated by null characters
 (\-\-format=text0), as a JSON array (\-\-format=json), or as an
 S-Expression list (\-\-format=sexp).
+
+Note that each message may have multiple filenames associated with it.
+All of them are included in the output, unless limited with the
+\-\-duplicate=N option.
 .RE
 .RS 4
 .TP 4
@@ -158,6 +162,22 @@ but the "match count" is the number of matching non-excluded messages in the
 thread, rather than the number of matching messages.
 .RE
 
+.RS 4
+.TP 4
+.BR \-\-duplicate=N
+
+Effective with
+.BR --output=files ,
+output the Nth filename associated with each message matching the
+query (N is 1-based). If N is greater than the number of files
+associated with the message, don't print anything.
+
+Note that this option is orthogonal with the
+.BR folder:
+search prefix. The prefix matches messages based on filenames. This
+option filters filenames of the matching messages.
+.RE
+
 .SH EXIT STATUS
 
 This command supports the following special exit status codes
-- 
1.7.10.4



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