Recoll user manual

Searching with the Qt graphical user interface

The recoll command has a number of useful command line options.

-c configdir specifies a non-default configuration directory.

-L lang can be used to use a different language for the GUI labels than the one which would be chosen according to the system locale. Some translations are quite incomplete and you may prefer to see the English messages, even if your machine is generally setup for, e.g. Spanish. Example:

recoll -L en

-q query specifies a query to be run when the program starts. It takes a single argument, which must be quoted if it contains white space.

-o/-l/-f/-a specify the type of query. The default is to interpret the -q argument as a query language string. You can use these options to interpret the argument as an Any Term, File Name or All Terms query instead.

The -t option will tell the program to behave exactly like the recollq command, printing the results to the standard output (terminal) instead of starting a graphical window.