XAPIAN-QUEST(1) User Commands XAPIAN-QUEST(1) (NAME) xapian-quest - Xapian (SYNOPSIS) xapian-quest [OPTIONS] 'QUERY' (DESCRIPTION) xapian-quest - Xapian : QUERY . (OPTIONS) -d, --db=DIRECTORY ( ) -m, --msize=MSIZE -c, --check-at-least=HOWMANY -s, --stemmer=LANG 'english' ( 'none' ). : arabic, armenian, basque, catalan, czech, danish, dutch, dutch_porter, earlymodernenglish, english, esperanto, estonian, finnish, french, german, greek, hindi, hungarian, indonesian, irish, italian, lithuanian, lovins, nepali, norwegian, persian, polish, porter, portuguese, romanian, russian, serbian, sesotho, spanish, swedish, tamil, turkish, yiddish -S, --stem-strategy=STRATEGY (: some). : all, all_z, none, some, some_full_pos -p, --prefix=PFX:TERMPFX -b, --boolean-prefix=PFX:TERMPFX -f, --flags=FLAG1[,FLAG2]... QueryParser (: default). : accumulate, auto_multiword_synonyms, auto_synonyms, boolean, boolean_any_case, cjk_ngram, default, fuzzy, lovehate, ngrams, no_positions, no_proper_noun_heuristic, partial, phrase, pure_not, spelling_correction, synonym, wildcard, wildcard_glob, wildcard_multi, wildcard_single, word_breaks -o, --default-op=OP QueryParser (: or). : and, elite_set, max, near, or, phrase, synonym -w, --weight=SCHEME --weight='bm25 1 0 0 1 0' (: bm25). -F, --freqs -h, --help -v, --version xapian-core 2.1.0 August 2026 XAPIAN-QUEST(1)