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### 1.4 Right truncation

Amberfish supports right truncated queries such as the following:

         $ af -s -d mydb -q 'car*'

The query term, ‘`car*`’, finds all documents containing the word, ‘`car`’, ‘`cars`’, or ‘`carpet`’, or any other word that starts with the prefix, ‘`car`’. A term such as ‘`s*`’ will match any word that starts with the letter, ‘`s`’, and it may take a while for Amberfish to process; not to mention the fact that it is very likely to match every document in the database.