DASHT-QUERY-EXEC 1 2020-05-16 2.4.0

NAME

dasht-query-exec - searches a Dash docset's SQLite3 database file

SYNOPSIS

dasht-query-exec PATTERN DATABASE [OPTIONS_FOR_SQLITE3...]

DESCRIPTION

Searches for PATTERN in DATABASE, which is an SQLite3 database file located inside a Dash docset at /Contents/Resources/docSet.dsidx, while passing the optional OPTIONS_FOR_SQLITE3 arguments down to sqlite3(1).

If PATTERN is empty or solely consists of unescaped wildcard characters, topics having distinct leading characters are returned from the DATABASE.

Searching

SQL LIKE wildcard characters in PATTERN can be escaped with a backslash. For example, \% and \_ are escaped, whereas % and _ are not escaped.

SEE ALSO

sqlite3(1), dasht-query-line(1), dasht(1), Dash

AUTHOR

Written in 2016 by Suraj N. Kurapati https://github.com/sunaku/dasht Distributed under the terms of the ISC license (refer to README file).

This particular script contains SQL queries that were derived from Zeal, which is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Refer to the body of this script for the terms and conditions that govern those SQL queries.