Re: output file argument to notmuch dump.

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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+To: Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu>\r
+Subject: Re: output file argument to notmuch dump.\r
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+Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:15:39 +0300\r
+In-Reply-To: <m1wrcht801.fsf@jhu.edu> (Jesse Rosenthal's message of "Fri, 07\r
+       Oct 2011 06:23:58 -0400")\r
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+Cc: David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>, notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>\r
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+On Fri 07 Oct 2011 13:23, Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu> writes:\r
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+> On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:20:40 -0300, David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> wrote:\r
+>> 1) just delete the output file option from notmuch-dump, and use shell\r
+>>    redirection. So far I don't see a non-contrived example when writing\r
+>>    an output file directly is useful, but maybe that is just a failure\r
+>>    of imagination.\r
+>> \r
+>> 2) delete the output file option and a global "--write" option that \r
+>>    calls freopen(... stdout). As a bonus(?) this would work for any \r
+>>    notmuch command.\r
+>\r
+> Either of these seem like the right approach to me. I might favor (1)\r
+> just a bit so I don't have to choose between different ways of doing the\r
+> same thing, but that's a small point. As Jamie said, they're pretty\r
+> much the same.\r
+\r
+The option 2, i.e. optional --write (or -o|--output) should be available;\r
+someone may run notmuch without using environment that provides\r
+redirections (or it is just plain simpler to give the command line option\r
+instead of doing redirections).\r
+\r
+> --Jesse\r
+\r
+Tomi\r