Re: [PATCH] notmuch-mutt: use --format=text0 and xargs -0

[Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
> notmuch-mutt fails for message files with special characters such as
> single quote in their filename. Use notmuch search --format=text0 and
> xargs -0 combo to handle them.
>
> Reported and tested by "dob1" on IRC.
> ---
>  contrib/notmuch-mutt/notmuch-mutt | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/notmuch-mutt/notmuch-mutt b/contrib/notmuch-mutt/notmuch-mutt
> index 0e46a8c1b95e..57f13075aa22 100755
> --- a/contrib/notmuch-mutt/notmuch-mutt
> +++ b/contrib/notmuch-mutt/notmuch-mutt
> @@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ sub search($$$) {
>      }
>  
>      empty_maildir($maildir);
> -    system("notmuch search --output=files $dup_option $query"
> +    system("notmuch search --format=text0 --output=files $dup_option $query"
>  	   . " | sed -e 's: :\\\\ :g'"

Come to think of it, does this need sed -z too?

> -	   . " | xargs -r -I searchoutput ln -s searchoutput $maildir/cur/");
> +	   . " | xargs -0 -r -I searchoutput ln -s searchoutput $maildir/cur/");
>  }
>  
>  sub prompt($$) {
> -- 
> 2.11.0