NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       notmuch tag [options...] +<tag>|-<tag> [...] [--] <search-term> [...]

       notmuch tag --batch [ --input=<filename> ]

DESCRIPTION

       Add/remove tags for all messages matching the search terms.

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

       Tags prefixed by '+' are added while those prefixed by '-' are removed. For each message, tag changes are
       applied in the order they appear on the command line.

       The  beginning  of  the search terms is recognized by the first argument that begins with neither '+' nor
       '-'. Support for an initial search term beginning with '+' or '-' is provided by  allowing  the  user  to
       specify a "--" argument to separate the tags from the search terms.

       notmuch  tag  updates  the  maildir  flags  according  to  tag  changes  if the maildir.synchronize_flags
       configuration option is enabled. See notmuch-config(1) for details.

       Supported options for tag include

           --remove-all

               Remove all tags from each message matching the search  terms  before  applying  the  tag  changes
               appearing  on  the  command  line.  This means setting the tags of each message to the tags to be
               added. If there are no tags to be added, the messages will have no tags.

           --batch

               Read batch tagging operations from a file  (stdin  by  default).  This  is  more  efficient  than
               repeated  notmuch tag invocations. See TAG FILE FORMAT below for the input format. This option is
               not compatible with specifying tagging on the command line.

           --input=<filename>

               Read input from given file, instead of from stdin. Implies --batch.

TAG FILE FORMAT

       The input must consist of lines of the format:

       +<tag>|-<tag> [...] [--] <query>

       Each line is interpreted similarly to notmuch tag command line arguments. The delimiter is  one  or  more
       spaces  ' '. Any characters in <tag> may be hex-encoded with %NN where NN is the hexadecimal value of the
       character. To hex-encode a character with a multi-byte UTF-8 encoding, hex-encode each byte.  Any  spaces
       in <tag> must be hex-encoded as %20. Any characters that are not part of <tag> must not be hex-encoded.

       In the future tag:"tag with spaces" style quoting may be supported for <tag> as well; for this reason all
       double quote characters in <tag> should be hex-encoded.

       The  <query> should be quoted using Xapian boolean term quoting rules: if a term contains whitespace or a
       close paren or starts with a double quote, it must be  enclosed  in  double  quotes  (not  including  any
       prefix) and double quotes inside the term must be doubled (see below for examples).

       Leading and trailing space ' ' is ignored. Empty lines and lines beginning with '#' are ignored.

   EXAMPLE
       The  following  shows a valid input to batch tagging. Note that only the isolated '*' acts as a wildcard.
       Also note the two different quotings of the tag space in tags
              +winner *
              +foo::bar%25 -- (One and Two) or (One and tag:winner)
              +found::it -- tag:foo::bar%
              # ignore this line and the next

              +space%20in%20tags -- Two
              # add tag '(tags)', among other stunts.
              +crazy{ +(tags) +&are +#possible -- tag:"space in tags"
              +match*crazy -- tag:crazy{
              +some_tag -- id:"this is ""nauty)"""

SEE ALSO

       notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1),  notmuch-dump(1),  notmuch-hooks(5),  notmuch-insert(1),
       notmuch-new(1),   notmuch-reply(1),   notmuch-restore(1),   notmuch-search(1),   notmuch-search-terms(7),
       notmuch-show(1),

Notmuch 0.17                                       2013-12-30                                     NOTMUCH-TAG(1)