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From: Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu>
To: David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>, 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:
> 1) just delete the output file option from notmuch-dump, and use shell
>    redirection. So far I don't see a non-contrived example when writing
>    an output file directly is useful, but maybe that is just a failure
>    of imagination.
> 
> 2) delete the output file option and a global "--write" option that 
>    calls freopen(... stdout). As a bonus(?) this would work for any 
>    notmuch command.

Either of these seem like the right approach to me. I might favor (1)
just a bit so I don't have to choose between different ways of doing the
same thing, but that's a small point. As Jamie said, they're pretty
much the same.

--Jesse