debian man page for notmuch-count

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

NAME
       notmuch-count - Count messages matching the given search terms.

SYNOPSIS
       notmuch count [options... ] <search-term>...

DESCRIPTION
       Count messages matching the search terms.

       The number of matching messages (or threads) is output to stdout.

       With no search terms, a count of all messages (or threads) in the database will be displayed.

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

       Supported options for count include

	   --output=(messages|threads)

	       messages

		   Output the number of matching messages. This is the default.

	       threads

		   Output the number of matching threads.

	   --exclude=(true|false)

	       Specify whether to omit messages matching search.tag_exclude from the count (the default) or not.

SEE ALSO
       notmuch(1),  notmuch-config(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-tag(1)

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