debian man page for notmuch-dump

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

NAME
       notmuch-dump - Creates a plain-text dump of the tags of each message.

SYNOPSIS
       notmuch dump [ <filename> ] [--] [ <search-term>...]

DESCRIPTION
       Dump tags for messages matching the given search terms.

       Output is to the given filename, if any, or to stdout.  Note that using the filename argument is deprecated.

       These  tags  are the only data in the notmuch database that can't be recreated from the messages themselves.  The output of notmuch dump is
       therefore the only critical thing to backup (and much more friendly to incremental backup than the native database files.)

       With no search terms, a dump of all messages in the database will be generated.	A "--" argument instructs notmuch that the remaining argu-
       ments are search terms.

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

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

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