> From: ng0 <n...@libertad.pw> > Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 12:42:13 +0000 > Cc: guile-user@gnu.org > > I think I was a bit too verbose with my question. I meant to say: > the part behind the "|", which originates from a 1:1 conversion of > the bash based part, is ignored for obvious reasons. But what > would be a quick way (until I've learned enough on this topic > myself) to perform the deletion? > I know that the original, "notmuch search --output=files > tag:deleted | xargs -L 1 rm" works in the bash script, but for > the .scm script, everything above (fetching mail, tagging mail) > works and this part is ignored: > (system* "notmuch" "search" "--output=files" "tag:deleted" "|" "xargs" "-L" > "1" "rm")
'system*' doesn't run the shell. You need either 'system' (which does), or use 'open-pipe*', 'open-input-pipe', etc.
