Firstly this can be simplified to simply: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s test -a $(echo *.pdf|sed "s/ /,/g") <sample.txtbut this will not work if any filename or pathname contains spaces. You can solve that with: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s test -a "$(sh -c 'IFS=,; echo "$*"' -- *.pdf)" \ <sample.txt
But that won't work for files with commas in the name! (Rare, but it can happen...) I'd prefer something like email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s test -a "$(ls -1 *.pdf | tr '\n' ',' )" < sample.txt Which would only fail if the file name had embedded newlines. I suppose `email' probably wouldn't be able to process a file with an embedded comma in the name one way or the other, but I find this sort of solution more portable than messing with IFS. ~Matt -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
