Re: Do path: searches handle spaces correctly?

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+Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:06:07 +0000\r
+From: Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu>\r
+To: Keith Amidon <camalot@picnicpark.org>\r
+Subject: Re: Do path: searches handle spaces correctly?\r
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+Quoth Keith Amidon on Sep 22 at  7:42 am:\r
+> On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 11:20 +0200, David Bremner wrote:\r
+> > Keith Amidon <keith@awakenetworks.com> writes:\r
+> > >\r
+> > > notmuch search --output=files path:'dir/INBOX/INBOX/Sent Items'\r
+> > >\r
+> > > I don't get any results, but it seems like the two results above should\r
+> > > be shown, right?  Am I doing something wrong here?  If it looks like I'm\r
+> > > doing it correctly, what can I do to help troubleshoot the issue?\r
+> > \r
+> > Note that path:, unlike folder:, does not add the maildir subdirs. Dunno\r
+> > if that's the only issue you are having, but I guess it's one.\r
+> \r
+> Darn it!  I made a mistake in my original email.  In the test I was\r
+> doing I actually had:\r
+> \r
+> notmuch search --output=files path:'dir/INBOX/INBOX/Sent Items/**'\r
+> \r
+> which I believe should have picked up all the subdirectory paths.  I\r
+> just retested to make sure that it still didn't work, and it doesn't.\r
+> \r
+> Am I still missing something?   Thanks for the help, Keith\r
+\r
+I assume you're doing this from the command line?  Does the following\r
+work?\r
+\r
+notmuch search --output=files 'path:"dir/INBOX/INBOX/Sent Items/**"'\r
+\r
+Shell quoting and Xapian quoting interact in often confusing ways.  In\r
+your original command line, the single quotes suppress shell argument\r
+splitting, but never make it to notmuch, so notmuch sees two search\r
+terms "path:dir/INBOX/INBOX/Sent" and "Items/**".  In the command line\r
+I suggested, the single quotes play the same role, but for the entire\r
+query.  Because of the quoting, notmuch *does* see the inner double\r
+quotes, which makes the path a single term (note that Xapian only\r
+accepts double quotes, not single quotes).  In general, it's good to\r
+enclose the entire command line query in single quotes so shell\r
+parsing doesn't get in the way of query parsing.\r