From 0132877452214fe994a21ab04133977bbfb2c949 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tomi Ollila Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 15:12:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal --- ff/23dedee3da2148da84111fb9809839f42b769d | 90 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 90 insertions(+) create mode 100644 ff/23dedee3da2148da84111fb9809839f42b769d diff --git a/ff/23dedee3da2148da84111fb9809839f42b769d b/ff/23dedee3da2148da84111fb9809839f42b769d new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d7f4e30a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/ff/23dedee3da2148da84111fb9809839f42b769d @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EAB3431FBC + for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 05:12:47 -0800 (PST) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id I03tUQmW5WdW for ; + Wed, 5 Feb 2014 05:12:43 -0800 (PST) +Received: from guru.guru-group.fi (guru.guru-group.fi [46.183.73.34]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3C97431FAE + for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 05:12:43 -0800 (PST) +Received: from guru.guru-group.fi (localhost [IPv6:::1]) + by guru.guru-group.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 023F7100033; + Wed, 5 Feb 2014 15:12:34 +0200 (EET) +From: Tomi Ollila +To: Austin Clements , Jani Nikula +Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal +In-Reply-To: <20140204200249.GO4375@mit.edu> +References: + <87y525m649.fsf@awakening.csail.mit.edu> + <87r47wfltb.fsf@nikula.org> <87iot8f4vg.fsf@nikula.org> + <20140130220234.GI4375@mit.edu> <87fvo2yjc4.fsf@nikula.org> + <20140204200249.GO4375@mit.edu> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.17+55~g4397960 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.3.1 + (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) +X-Face: HhBM'cA~ +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain +Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:12:47 -0000 + +On Tue, Feb 04 2014, Austin Clements wrote: + +> Quoth Jani Nikula on Feb 01 at 4:54 pm: +> +>> I kind of like the "/**" suffix for recursive, but there's two small +>> wrinkles: 1) it needs quoting on the command line (unlike my original +>> suggestion of just "/" suffix), and 2) what should the top level +>> recursive search be? path:"**" or path:"/**" or path:"./**"? I guess the +>> first one is most obvious? +> +> The shell quoting is annoying, but depending on the shell, it should +> at least give an error (zsh) or Just Work (apparently bash and sh pass +> the unexpanded glob through if it doesn't match anything?). + + +In zsh: + +$ echo whatever:/** +whatever:/** + +Quick check with: +ksh-20100621-12.el6.x86_64, +dash-0.5.5.1-3.1.el6.x86_64 +busybox-1.15.1-20.el6.x86_64 (busybox sh & busybox ash) +and +http://sourceforge.net/projects/heirloom/files/heirloom-sh/050706/heirloom-sh-050706.tar.bz2/download + +all do the same (non-)expansion. + + +I vaguely remember some shells did puke some error when expansion yielded +no results... maybe some shell option does it. Definitely not mainstream +feature. + +Tomi -- 2.26.2