notmuchsync: handling of the deleted tag

[Carl Worth]

On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:01:09 -0500, Jameson Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:52:51 -0800, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
> > This one is a simple one-liner as of notmuch 0.4:
> > 
> >     notmuch search --output=files tag:deleted -print0 | xargs -0 rm
> 
> Is -print0 actually a command that notmuch accepts?  It's not documented
> as far as I can tell.  And it doesn't seem to affect the output of the
> command, i.e. whether or not it's used the output is still newline
> delimited.  I'm not seeing it in the source either.

No, it's not something implemented. I'm surprised I spouted such
nonsense above. I think what happened is that I first typed a command
line which would actually work, (for filenames without embedded newline
characters):

        notmuch search --output=files tag:deleted | xargs rm

And then a habit kicked in from typing many find/xargs commands and I
retrofitted the command with -print0 and -0 as I originally sent it out.

Should we perhaps add a -0 option so that one could actually reliably
handle filenames with newlines in a case like this? Or can we just
assert that such filenames are insane and *should* cause problems?

-Carl

-- 
carl.d.worth at intel.com
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