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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,  cata-
	    lan,  danish, dutch, dutch_porter, earlyenglish, english, esperanto,
	    estonian, finnish, french, german, greek, hindi, hungarian,  indone-
	    sian, 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: accumu-
	    late,     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,   wild-
	    card_multi, wildcard_single, word_breaks

     -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, 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)

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