On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Mark Walters wrote: > I am experimenting with using notmuch remotely over ssh (as in the > NEWS file; i.e. with a script containing ssh u...@host notmuch "$@") > This is mostly excellent but it seems to get confused by some queries. > For example those containing brackets or just consisting of *. I think > this is a problem with ssh spawning a shell on the remote machine > which doesn't like the brackets or *. > > Explicitly to reproduce the problem start notmuch with a remote > database using a script as above; > type * in the search box; > and emacs shows: > End of search results. (process returned 1)
Hi Mark, you are right, that there are problems with the queries containing shell meta characters. AFAIK the probelm is not caused by the remote shell, as notmuch is there invoked directly by ssh, but by the shell invoking the ssh. I do not know precisely why, but the following script seems to work correctly even for the queries containing shell meta characters. It uses bash's printf extension to print shell-quoted version of a string. #!/bin/bash printf -v args "%q " "$@" ssh example.org notmuch $args -Michal _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
