Re: lore+lei: getting started

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 12:07 PM Konstantin Ryabitsev
<konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> Hello, all:
>
> I am going to post a series of articles about public inbox's new lei tool
> (stands for "local email interface", but is clearly a "lorelei" joke :)). In
> addition to being available here on the workflows list, they will also be
> posted on my people.kernel.org blog.

I also wanted to do non-persistent searches. Essentially, the lore web
interface search box on the command line. lei can do this with the
right options and some avoidance of shell escaping. The shell script
below is what I came up with.

Note I have the stable exclusion added because subject searches with
'get the whole thread' enabled often picks up Greg's 100+ patch
series.

Rob

8<------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

usage()
{
        echo "syntax: `basename $0` [-t] <query string>"
        echo ""
        echo "For query syntax, see https://lore.kernel.org/all/_/text/help/"
        exit 1
}

while getopts "ht" opt
do
        case "$opt" in
        t)      threads="-t";;
        [h?])    usage;;
        esac
done
shift $((OPTIND-1))
query_str="$*"
[ -z "$query_str" ] && usage


tmp_mbox=$(mktemp)

echo "$query_str" NOT tc:stable@vger.kernel.org | \
  lei q --no-save --dedupe=mid -f mboxrd -O
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ -o $tmp_mbox --stdin

if [ -s "$tmp_mbox" ]; then
        mutt -f $tmp_mbox
fi

rm $tmp_mbox