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Re: [nmh-workers] 'dist' in "1 line noninteractive script"
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Valdis Klētnieks |
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Re: [nmh-workers] 'dist' in "1 line noninteractive script" |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Jul 2019 12:18:17 -0400 |
On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:09:38 -0500, address@hidden said:
> On Tue 7/23/19 21:44 -0400 Ken Hornstein wrote:
> >> mhannotate=Resent mhaltmsg=~/Mail/sent/bar mhdist=1 send
> >> ~/Mail/drafts/foo
> >
> >It wouldn't surprise me that the problem is that ~ in mhaltmsg. Is that
> >actually being expanded? If you run send with -debug, do you maybe
> >see a message saying "$mhaltmsg mismatch"?
>
> $ ( set -x ; x=~ true )
> + x=/a/rodmant
> + true
>
> So bash expands ~ before send sees it.
But that may not be true for something that invokes execve() rather than
system(), or a cronjob (which is what started this discussion).
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- [nmh-workers] 'dist' in "at" job or "1 line script"? [end-user ?], nmh, 2019/07/19
- Re: [nmh-workers] 'dist' in "1 line noninteractive script", nmh, 2019/07/20
- Re: [nmh-workers] 'dist' in "1 line noninteractive script", Ralph Corderoy, 2019/07/21
- Re: [nmh-workers] 'dist' in "1 line noninteractive script", David Levine, 2019/07/22
- Re: [nmh-workers] 'dist' in "1 line noninteractive script", nmh, 2019/07/23
- Re: [nmh-workers] 'dist' in "1 line noninteractive script", Ken Hornstein, 2019/07/23
- Re: [nmh-workers] 'dist' in "1 line noninteractive script", nmh, 2019/07/25
- Re: [nmh-workers] 'dist' in "1 line noninteractive script",
Valdis Klētnieks <=
- Re: [nmh-workers] 'dist' in "1 line noninteractive script", Ken Hornstein, 2019/07/25
- Re: [nmh-workers] 'dist' in "1 line noninteractive script", David Levine, 2019/07/23
- Re: [nmh-workers] 'dist' in "1 line noninteractive script", nmh, 2019/07/25
- Re: [nmh-workers] 'dist' in "1 line noninteractive script", nmh, 2019/07/23