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10-21-2006

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Thanks for the reply. Although I'm sure you wont believe me, I read the rules before I posted.

After posting the question I realised that it wasn't clear. In the example I used above, I was after the last argument (which the thread you suggested does show how to do) but my question was as per the second article. That is to say it could be anywhere within the argument list. If i were to search, the terms I would be using would be position, argument, file, all terms ubiquitous to most threads. That is why i chose against searching.

Thanks for your response.

Mitch.

P.S. I am a nice guy, and understand where you are coming from. I know from experience what it is like partaking in forums where people ask questions that have been asked a hundred times before. I didn't just ignore the search feature off the cuff. Sorry if I pi**ed you off.

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NOTMUCH-TAG(1)						      General Commands Manual						    NOTMUCH-TAG(1)

NAME

       notmuch-tag - Add/remove tags for all messages matching the search terms.

SYNOPSIS

       notmuch tag +<tag>|-<tag> [...] [--] <search-term>...

DESCRIPTION

       Add/remove tags for all messages matching the search terms.

       See notmuch-search-terms(7) for details of the supported syntax for <search-terms>.

       Tags prefixed by '+' are added while those prefixed by '-' are removed. For each message, tag removal is performed before tag addition.

       The  beginning  of  <search-terms>  is recognized by the first argument that begins with neither '+' nor '-'. Support for an initial search
       term beginning with '+' or '-' is provided by allowing the user to specify a "--" argument to separate the tags from the search terms.

       notmuch tag updates the maildir flags according to tag changes if the maildir.synchronize_flags configuration option is enabled.  See  not-
       much-config(1) for details.

SEE ALSO

       notmuch(1),  notmuch-config(1),	notmuch-count(1), notmuch-dump(1), notmuch-hooks(5), notmuch-new(1), notmuch-reply(1), notmuch-restore(1),
       notmuch-search(1), notmuch-search-terms(7), notmuch-show(1),

Notmuch 0.13.2							    2012-06-01							    NOTMUCH-TAG(1)