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From: Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu>
To: David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>, notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: output file argument to notmuch dump.
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:23:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1wrcht801.fsf@jhu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8739f5tzxj.fsf@zancas.localnet>

On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:20:40 -0300, David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> wrote:
> 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.

Either of these seem like the right approach to me. I might favor (1)
just a bit so I don't have to choose between different ways of doing the
same thing, but that's a small point. As Jamie said, they're pretty
much the same.

--Jesse

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-07 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-07  0:20 output file argument to notmuch dump David Bremner
2011-10-07  0:37 ` 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 [this message]
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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