[PATCH] replace gnu xargs usage in notmuch-mutt with perl

[Tomi Ollila]

On Tue, Apr 10 2012, Taylor Carpenter wrote:

> ---

what if instead of

> +    my @filelist = `notmuch search --output=files $query`;
> +    foreach(@filelist) {

there is:

  open my $fh, '-|', qw/notmuch search --output=files/, $query;
  while (<$fh>) { 
   ...
  }
  unless (close $fh) {
     # handle error case
  }

Tomi

(in addition to more verbose commit message & unrelated change moved to
another commit)


>  contrib/notmuch-mutt/notmuch-mutt |   12 ++++++++----
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/notmuch-mutt/notmuch-mutt b/contrib/notmuch-mutt/notmuch-mutt
> index 71206c3..dbe7f2d 100755
> --- a/contrib/notmuch-mutt/notmuch-mutt
> +++ b/contrib/notmuch-mutt/notmuch-mutt
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -#!/usr/bin/perl -w
> +#!/usr/bin/env perl -w
>  #
>  # notmuch-mutt - notmuch (of a) helper for Mutt
>  #
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ use strict;
>  use warnings;
>  
>  use File::Path;
> +use File::Basename;
>  use Getopt::Long qw(:config no_getopt_compat);
>  use Mail::Internet;
>  use Mail::Box::Maildir;
> @@ -41,9 +42,12 @@ sub search($$) {
>      $query = shell_quote($query);
>  
>      empty_maildir($maildir);
> -    system("notmuch search --output=files $query"
> -	   . " | sed -e 's: :\\\\ :g'"
> -	   . " | xargs --no-run-if-empty ln -s -t $maildir/cur/");
> +    my @filelist = `notmuch search --output=files $query`;
> +    foreach(@filelist) {
> +        chomp;
> +        my $target = sprintf("$maildir/cur/%s", basename($_));
> +        symlink($_, $target);
> +    }
>  }
>  
>  sub prompt($$) {
> -- 
> 1.7.7.4
>
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