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From: David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>
To: notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: output file argument to notmuch dump.
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On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:20:40 -0300, David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> wrote:
>=20
> I'd like to add a search term argument to notmuch dump (see
> id:"87wrcijn1w.fsf@zancas.localnet" and followup for context). The
> "notmuch" way would be to have
>=20
>     notmuch dump <search-term>
>=20
> do the right thing

Another option occured to me that is consistent at least with notmuch
tag and notmuch show would be to support the following transitional
syntaxes

        notmuch dump file
        notmuch dump file [--] search terms
        notmuch dump -- search terms

the first two could then be deprecated, and eventually the syntax

    notmuch dump search terms=20

could be enabled.

the question of whether to support=20

    notmuch dump --file foo.txt

or something like=20

   notmuch --stdout=3Dfoo.txt dump

could be dealt with later.

David

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