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.. _notmuch-tag(1):
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===========
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notmuch-tag
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===========
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SYNOPSIS
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========
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**notmuch** **tag** [options ...] +<*tag*>|-<*tag*> [--] <*search-term*> ...
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**notmuch** **tag** **--batch** [--input=<*filename*>]
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DESCRIPTION
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===========
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Add/remove tags for all messages matching the search terms.
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See :any:`notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details of the supported syntax for
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<*search-term*\ >.
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Tags prefixed by '+' are added while those prefixed by '-' are removed.
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For each message, tag changes are applied in the order they appear on
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the command line.
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The beginning of the search terms is recognized by the first argument
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that begins with neither '+' nor '-'. Support for an initial search term
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beginning with '+' or '-' is provided by allowing the user to specify a
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"--" argument to separate the tags from the search terms.
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**notmuch tag** updates the maildir flags according to tag changes if
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the **maildir.synchronize\_flags** configuration option is enabled. See
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:any:`notmuch-config(1)` for details.
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Supported options for **tag** include
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.. program:: tag
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.. option:: --remove-all
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Remove all tags from each message matching the search terms before
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applying the tag changes appearing on the command line. This
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means setting the tags of each message to the tags to be added. If
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there are no tags to be added, the messages will have no tags.
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.. option:: --batch
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Read batch tagging operations from a file (stdin by default).
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This is more efficient than repeated **notmuch tag**
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invocations. See `TAG FILE FORMAT <#tag_file_format>`__ below for
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the input format. This option is not compatible with specifying
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tagging on the command line.
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.. option:: --input=<filename>
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Read input from given file, instead of from stdin. Implies
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``--batch``.
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TAG FILE FORMAT
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===============
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The input must consist of lines of the format:
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+<*tag*\ >\|-<*tag*\ > [...] [--] <*query*\ >
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Each line is interpreted similarly to **notmuch tag** command line
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arguments. The delimiter is one or more spaces ' '. Any characters in
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<*tag*\ > **may** be hex-encoded with %NN where NN is the hexadecimal
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value of the character. To hex-encode a character with a multi-byte
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UTF-8 encoding, hex-encode each byte. Any spaces in <tag> **must** be
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hex-encoded as %20. Any characters that are not part of <*tag*\ > **must
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not** be hex-encoded.
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In the future tag:"tag with spaces" style quoting may be supported for
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<*tag*\ > as well; for this reason all double quote characters in
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<*tag*\ > **should** be hex-encoded.
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The <*query*\ > should be quoted using Xapian boolean term quoting
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rules: if a term contains whitespace or a close paren or starts with a
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double quote, it must be enclosed in double quotes (not including any
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prefix) and double quotes inside the term must be doubled (see below for
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examples).
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Leading and trailing space ' ' is ignored. Empty lines and lines
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beginning with '#' are ignored.
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EXAMPLE
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-------
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The following shows a valid input to batch tagging. Note that only the
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isolated '\*' acts as a wildcard. Also note the two different quotings
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of the tag **space in tags**
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::
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+winner *
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+foo::bar%25 -- (One and Two) or (One and tag:winner)
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+found::it -- tag:foo::bar%
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# ignore this line and the next
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+space%20in%20tags -- Two
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# add tag '(tags)', among other stunts.
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+crazy{ +(tags) +&are +#possible\ -- tag:"space in tags"
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+match*crazy -- tag:crazy{
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+some_tag -- id:"this is ""nauty)"""
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SEE ALSO
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========
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:any:`notmuch(1)`,
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:any:`notmuch-config(1)`,
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:any:`notmuch-count(1)`,
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:any:`notmuch-dump(1)`,
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:any:`notmuch-hooks(5)`,
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:any:`notmuch-insert(1)`,
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:any:`notmuch-new(1)`,
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:any:`notmuch-reply(1)`,
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:any:`notmuch-restore(1)`,
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:any:`notmuch-search(1)`,
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:any:`notmuch-search-terms(7)`,
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:any:`notmuch-show(1)`,
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