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Re: [bug-mailutils] check flags before number of arguments
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Paul Vojta |
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Re: [bug-mailutils] check flags before number of arguments |
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Mon, 4 May 2009 11:43:49 -0700 |
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On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 01:30:38PM +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> address@hidden ha escrit:
>
> > Perhaps the arguments should be checked better before the user gets
> > tangled into
> > $ mail -Hf file1 file2
>
> It is not quite clear what was intended. The `file2' argument is
> clearly a recipient email, and was understood as such.
>
> Regards,
> Sergey
I think the original poster's problem stemmed from using wildcards
(as in the example given later using xargs or something). Of course
doing "mail -f file address@hidden" is something that someone may want to do
at times, since one may want access to the messages in "file" using
tilde-escapes. But with the H option this would not make sense, and
that is the complaint.
Having said that, though, the original user perhaps should look into
filename completion.
--Paul Vojta, address@hidden