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

[Tomi Ollila]

On Tue, Feb 27 2018, Jani Nikula wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Feb 2018, Jani Nikula <jani at 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?

it looks  to me that sed can  be dropped.

btw how many non-coreutils xargs support -0 option ?




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