1NOTMUCH-TAG(1)                      notmuch                     NOTMUCH-TAG(1)
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NAME

6       notmuch-tag  -  add/remove  tags  for  all messages matching the search
7       terms
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SYNOPSIS

10       notmuch tag [options ...] +<tag>|-<tag> [--] <search-term> ...
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12       notmuch tag --batch [--input=<filename>]
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DESCRIPTION

15       Add/remove tags for all messages matching the search terms.
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17       See notmuch-search-terms(7) for details of  the  supported  syntax  for
18       <search-term>.
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20       Tags prefixed by '+' are added while those prefixed by '-' are removed.
21       For each message, tag changes are applied in the order they  appear  on
22       the command line.
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24       The  beginning  of the search terms is recognized by the first argument
25       that begins with neither '+' nor '-'. Support  for  an  initial  search
26       term  beginning  with  '+'  or  '-' is provided by allowing the user to
27       specify a "--" argument to separate the tags from the search terms.
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29       notmuch tag updates the maildir flags according to tag changes  if  the
30       maildir.synchronize_flags  configuration  option  is  enabled. See not‐
31       much-config(1) for details.
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33       Supported options for tag include
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35       --remove-all
36              Remove all tags from each  message  matching  the  search  terms
37              before  applying  the tag changes appearing on the command line.
38              This means setting the tags of each message to the  tags  to  be
39              added.  If there are no tags to be added, the messages will have
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42       --batch
43              Read batch tagging operations from a file  (stdin  by  default).
44              This  is  more  efficient than repeated notmuch tag invocations.
45              See TAG FILE FORMAT below for the input format. This  option  is
46              not compatible with specifying tagging on the command line.
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48       --input=<filename>
49              Read  input  from  given  file,  instead  of from stdin. Implies
50              --batch.
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TAG FILE FORMAT

53       The input must consist of lines of the format:
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55       +<tag>|-<tag> [...] [--] <query>
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57       Each line is interpreted similarly to notmuch tag  command  line  argu‐
58       ments. The delimiter is one or more spaces ' '. Any characters in <tag>
59       may be hex-encoded with %NN where NN is the hexadecimal  value  of  the
60       character.  To hex-encode a character with a multi-byte UTF-8 encoding,
61       hex-encode each byte. Any spaces in <tag> must be hex-encoded  as  %20.
62       Any characters that are not part of <tag> must not be hex-encoded.
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64       In  the future tag:"tag with spaces" style quoting may be supported for
65       <tag> as well; for this reason all double  quote  characters  in  <tag>
66       should be hex-encoded.
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68       The  <query>  should be quoted using Xapian boolean term quoting rules:
69       if a term contains whitespace or a close paren or starts with a  double
70       quote,  it must be enclosed in double quotes (not including any prefix)
71       and double quotes inside the term must be doubled (see below for  exam‐
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74       Leading and trailing space ' ' is ignored. Empty lines and lines begin‐
75       ning with '#' are ignored.
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77   EXAMPLE
78       The following shows a valid input to batch tagging. Note that only  the
79       isolated  '*'  acts as a wildcard. Also note the two different quotings
80       of the tag space in tags
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82          +winner *
83          +foo::bar%25 -- (One and Two) or (One and tag:winner)
84          +found::it -- tag:foo::bar%
85          # ignore this line and the next
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87          +space%20in%20tags -- Two
88          # add tag '(tags)', among other stunts.
89          +crazy{ +(tags) +&are +#possible\ -- tag:"space in tags"
90          +match*crazy -- tag:crazy{
91          +some_tag -- id:"this is ""nauty)"""
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SEE ALSO

94       notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-dump(1),  not‐
95       much-hooks(5),   notmuch-insert(1),  notmuch-new(1),  notmuch-reply(1),
96       notmuch-restore(1),  notmuch-search(1),  notmuch-search-terms(7),  not‐
97       much-show(1),
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AUTHOR

100       Carl Worth and many others
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103       2009-2019, Carl Worth and many others
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1080.29.1                           Jul 25, 2019                   NOTMUCH-TAG(1)
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