From: David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>
To: notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: output file argument to notmuch dump.
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:20:40 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739f5tzxj.fsf@zancas.localnet> (raw)
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I'd like to add a search term argument to notmuch dump (see
id:"87wrcijn1w.fsf@zancas.localnet" and followup for context). The
"notmuch" way would be to have
notmuch dump <search-term>
do the right thing, and that is easy enough _except_ that
notmuch dump foo
writes the output to file foo.
I see several options.
1) just delete the output file option from notmuch-dump, and use shell
redirection. So far I don't see a non-contrived example when writing
an output file directly is useful, but maybe that is just a failure
of imagination.
2) delete the output file option and a global "--write" option that
calls freopen(... stdout). As a bonus(?) this would work for any
notmuch command.
3) leave the output option alone and implement a --query=foo option for
notmuch dump. This would be the most backward compatible of course,
but also confusing for users.
Thoughts?
d
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next reply other threads:[~2011-10-07 0:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-07 0:20 David Bremner [this message]
2011-10-07 0:37 ` output file argument to notmuch dump Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-10-07 0:53 ` David Bremner
2011-10-07 1:43 ` Tom Prince
2011-10-07 1:14 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-10-07 10:23 ` Jesse Rosenthal
2011-10-07 11:15 ` Tomi Ollila
2011-10-07 17:22 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-10-10 7:32 ` Tomi Ollila
2011-10-09 16:01 ` David Bremner
2011-10-10 13:49 ` david
2011-10-10 13:49 ` [PATCH 1/6] test: update dump-restore to use redirection instead of filename args david
2011-10-10 13:49 ` [PATCH 2/6] test: add tests for command line arguments to notmuch-dump david
2011-10-10 13:49 ` [PATCH 3/6] notmuch-dump: update handling of file name argument david
2011-10-10 13:49 ` [PATCH 4/6] notmuch-dump: treat any remaining arguments after the filename as search terms david
2011-10-10 13:49 ` [PATCH 5/6] test: all dump-restore tests should be working now david
2011-10-10 13:49 ` [PATCH 6/6] notmuch-dump: deprecate use of output file argument david
2011-10-16 20:34 ` Thomas Schwinge
2011-10-16 23:25 ` Re: David Bremner
2011-10-10 13:59 ` output file argument to notmuch dump Tomi Ollila
2011-10-10 14:25 ` David Bremner
2011-10-10 16:41 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-10-11 2:12 ` David Bremner
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