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1.10 Multiple databases

The af tool can search multiple databases, for example:

     $ af -s -d patents1978 -d patents1979 -d patents1980 -q 'mousetrap'

The query is applied to each of the three databases, patents1978, patents1979, patents1980, and the results are merged into a single result set.