On 11/15/2010 10:24 AM, servilio wrote: > And "xargs -L1 ..." will solve the issue in a nicer way. So the above would be: > > notmuch search --output=files tag:deleted | xargs -L1 rm Assuming none of your mail filenames have newlines or trailing whitespace, that is. I'd like to make that kind of assumption, myself. But I've certainly seen files that violate it (not from any maildir implementation, though). --dkg