$(date ...)..$(date ...) request from Emacs

[Tomi Ollila]

On Sat, Aug 24 2013, Bastien <bzg at altern.org> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> notmuch search $(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s -d 2009-10-02)
>
> works wonders from the command line, but not from within Emacs:
>
> M-x notmuch-search RET $(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s -d 2009-10-02)

there is no shell expansion done to the string... 

... however

M-x notmuch-search RET date:2009-10-01..2009-10-02

should do it (provided you have at least notmuch 0.15 (or so))

Tomi


>
> [Sat Aug 24 12:39:15 2013]
> A Xapian exception occurred performing query: Unknown range operation
> Query string was: $(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s -d 2009-10-02)
> command: notmuch search --format\=sexp --format-version\=1 --sort\=newest-first \$\(date\ \+\%s\ -d\ 2009-10-01\)..\$\(date\ \+\%s\ -d\ 2009-10-02\)
> exit status: 1
> stderr:
> A Xapian exception occurred performing query: Unknown range operation
> Query string was: $(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s -d 2009-10-02)
>
> I see --format=sexp -- does that mean we need to protect those
> kinds of requests somehow?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> -- 
>  Bastien
>
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