From a9ad99631a50bde3181cf94327c52883cc7af138 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf8?q?Michele=20Orr=C3=B9?= <maker@tumbolandia.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 18:19:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] When piping notmuch search into xargs, use --no-run-if-empty.

This might be useful to avoid non-zero returncodes when there are no search
results and xargs' command expect one or more arguments, like in `rm`.
---
 excluding.mdwn | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/excluding.mdwn b/excluding.mdwn
index ef9b1a7..4e54a85 100644
--- a/excluding.mdwn
+++ b/excluding.mdwn
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ be used to train a spam filter:
 
 It can also be used to purge mail files from disk:
 
-        $ notmuch search --format=text0 --output=files tag:deleted | xargs -0 rm
+        $ notmuch search --format=text0 --output=files tag:deleted | xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty rm
 
 Make sure you run "notmuch new" after the last command so the database
 becomes aware that the files have been removed and can remove the
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