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+# mf
+
+A serverless meme finder with full-text search (thanks to SQLite, but you have
+to describe all the images yourself)
+
+```
+Usage: mf [-C=<directory>] create
+  or   mf [-C=<directory>] list
+  or   mf [-C=<directory>] search <search query>
+  or   mf [-C=<directory>] prune
+
+  or   mf [-C=<directory>] {info|show} <file>...
+  or   mf [-C=<directory>] delete <file>...
+  or   mf [-C=<directory>] edit <file>
+  or   mf [-C=<directory>] get <file>
+  or   mf [-C=<directory>] set <file> <source> <description> <misc info>
+
+-C=<directory> changes the current working directory to <directory> before a
+subcommand is executed. This causes the database to be looked up in
+<directory>, all file paths are relative to <directory> and database creation
+to be inside of <directory>
+
+create creates a database in the current directory (or <directory>)
+
+prune removes all metadata entries that correspond to non-existent files, then
+vaccums the database
+
+delete only deletes the metadata for the files specified, not the actual files
+themselves
+
+get outputs the file's path, source, description, and miscellaneous information
+delimited by a null-byte
+```