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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

database to search (multiple databases may be specified)
maximum number of matches to return
minimum number of matches to check
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
set the stemming strategy (default: some). Valid strategies: all, all_z, none, some, some_full_pos
add a prefix
add a boolean prefix
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
specify QueryParser default operator (default: or). Valid operators: and, elite_set, max, near, or, phrase, synonym
specify weighting scheme to use, which can include parameters, e.g. --weight='bm25 1 0 0 1 0' (default: bm25).
show query term frequencies
display this help and exit
output version information and exit
March 2026 xapian-core 1.5.2