E Forrest Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > alias somelist `getlist.pl`
> >
> > Perhaps you didn't have your script output a trailing new-line (\n)
> > character?
>
> That did it, thanks. Incidentally, why is the newline character
> required? There's a newline after the second back-tick, right?
Mutt's parser requires full lines to be read. You will see the same
effect if your editor doesn't put a newline character at the end of your
.muttrc file; that final command will be ignored.
In this case, though, Mutt is reading the .muttrc just fine; it's when
it reads the piped output from your "getlist.pl" script, the same parser
is used, and it wants to read full lines of output. If your script
fails to output a final newline character, the last (unfinished, in
Mutt's eyes) line of output will be ignored.
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