From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: remote-notmuch.sh
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:04:55 +0300
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Hi

The remote-notmuch.sh script on page http://notmuchmail.org/remoteusage/
starts to show it's age. As the notmuch command line interface has evolved
(and emacs ui followed) it is not working in many cases anymore.

I took the script and modified it to work in my cases so far.

If you have problems with remote-notmuch.sh take a look this modified
version. For the time being it is located at 
http://www.iki.fi/too/nottoomuch/remote-notmuch.sh

If this proves to be working better in other users use then I can
update the script on the remoteusage page also.

Changes:

Changed shebang to '#!/bin/sh' -- tested the script works with /bin/bash &
/bin/dash -- It should also work with http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/sh.html
but I did not test.

Changed sha1sum to 'openssl sha1' -- should work identically everywhere
where openssl is installed (Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, ...).

Changed arg quote mangling for ssh command line: Every arg is encapsulated
between ':s and ':s in args replaced with '\'' construct. Note that shell
builtin echo expansions cannot be handled here but in this case this
doesn't cause problems; example: foo=-n bar='\n'; echo "$foo" x "$bar" y 
(but see at the end of this email..)

'notmuch show' checks that first arg is --format=raw and last begins with id:
-- and in this case uses the whole command line as hash key.

'case' used to choose internal command and shifts there removed.


Tomi

PS: I tested replacement for "'`echo "$arg" | sed "s/'/'\\\\\\''/"`'":

for a
do	x=`awk -v arg="$a" "BEGIN { while (index(\"'\", arg)) 
		sub(\"'\", \"'\\\\\\''\", arg); printf \"'%s'\", arg }"`
	echo "$x"
done

on command line. I include this into my script and test first before putting
to the 'released' version.