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authorGravatar Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>2013-08-17 15:11:28 +0300
committerGravatar David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>2013-08-24 11:42:30 +0200
commitcbc1b143db8ed19f9a11408815b956d9f42c339b (patch)
treec47f6826842580d30d0e52e6c5b851927fe0dbc8 /man
parent820a88eaaaf2edb01cef1f08eb55047ecea6c963 (diff)
man: document notmuch search --duplicate=N
Document the notmuch search --duplicate=N option.
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diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-search.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-search.1
index 2d6ecafc..f69a4cd7 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