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QUEST(1) User Commands QUEST(1) 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). Valid stemmers: arabic, armenian, basque, cata- lan, danish, dutch, earlyenglish, english, finnish, french, german, german2, hungarian, indonesian, irish, italian, kraaij_pohlmann, lithuanian, lovins, nepali, norwegian, porter, portuguese, romanian, russian, spanish, swedish, tamil, turkish -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: accumu- late, auto_multiword_synonyms, auto_synonyms, boolean, boolean_any_case, cjk_ngram, default, lovehate, ngrams, no_posi- tions, partial, phrase, pure_not, spelling_correction, synonym, wildcard -o, --default-op=OP specify QueryParser default operator (default: or). Valid opera- tors: 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 1.4.31 February 2026 QUEST(1)
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