.TH DASHT\-QUERY\-EXEC 1            2020\-05\-16                            2.4.0
.SH NAME
.PP
dasht\-query\-exec \- searches a Dash \[la]https://kapeli.com/dash\[ra] docset's SQLite3 database file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.PP
\fB\fCdasht\-query\-exec\fR \fIPATTERN\fP \fIDATABASE\fP [\fIOPTIONS_FOR_SQLITE3\fP\&...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
Searches for \fIPATTERN\fP in \fIDATABASE\fP, which is an SQLite3 database file
located inside a Dash \[la]https://kapeli.com/dash\[ra] docset at \fB\fC/Contents/Resources/docSet.dsidx\fR, while
passing the optional \fIOPTIONS_FOR_SQLITE3\fP arguments down to 
.BR sqlite3 (1).
.PP
If \fIPATTERN\fP is empty or solely consists of unescaped wildcard characters,
topics having distinct leading characters are returned from the \fIDATABASE\fP\&.
.SS Searching
.PP
SQL LIKE wildcard characters in \fIPATTERN\fP can be escaped with a backslash.
For example, \fB\fC\\%\fR and \fB\fC\\_\fR are escaped, whereas \fB\fC%\fR and \fB\fC_\fR are not escaped.
.SH SEE ALSO
.PP
.BR sqlite3 (1), 
.BR dasht-query-line (1), 
.BR dasht (1), 
Dash \[la]https://kapeli.com/dash\[ra]
.SH AUTHOR
.PP
Written in 2016 by Suraj N. Kurapati \[la]https://github.com/sunaku/dasht\[ra]
Distributed under the terms of the ISC license (refer to README file).
.PP
This particular script contains SQL queries that were derived from Zeal \[la]https://zealdocs.org\[ra],
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.