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.TH PICK %manext1% "%nmhdate%" MH.6.8 [%nmhversion%]
.SH NAME
-pick \- search for messages by content
+pick \- select messages by content
.SH SYNOPSIS
.HP 5
.na
.IR date ]
.RB [ \-datefield
.IR field ]
+.RB [ \-format
+.IR formatfile ]
+.RB [ \-width
+.IR columns ]
.RB [ \-sequence
.I name
\&...]
week are judged to refer to a day in the past (e.g., telling \fIpick\fR
`saturday' on a `tuesday' means `last\ saturday'
not `this\ saturday').
+Further more, dates in a simplified ISO 8601/RFC 3339 style (e.g.
+`YYYY-MM-DD' or `YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss') are accepted.
Finally, in addition to these special specifications,
.B pick
will
.B extremely
useful for
quickly generating arguments for other
-.B nmh
+.B mmh
programs by using the
`backquoting' syntax of the shell. For example, the command
.PP
backquoting
.B pick
is empty. In the case of
-.B nmh
+.B mmh
programs,
the outer command now acts as if the default `msg' or `msgs' should be
used (e.g., `all' in the case of