On Fri 07 Oct 2011 13:23, Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal at jhu.edu> writes:
> On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:20:40 -0300, David Bremner <bremner at 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. The option 2, i.e. optional --write (or -o|--output) should be available; someone may run notmuch without using environment that provides redirections (or it is just plain simpler to give the command line option instead of doing redirections). > --Jesse Tomi