Re: archiving mailboxes each month

[Gerald Oskoboiny]

On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 12:08:42PM +0200, Jan Peter Hecking wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 01:37:30PM +0200, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
> >     mailboxes `find ~/mail -type f -print | tr '\n' ' '`
: 
> Now you're missing an newline at the end of the string. Try
> 
> mailboxes `find $HOME/mail -type f -print | tr '\n' ' ';echo`
> 
> instead. Beware also that the tilde ~ doesn't get expanded - you
> have to use $HOME instead.

I guess this depends on your shell -- ~ works for me (using bash.)

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