Re: Quoting of signature variable

[Sameh Ghane]

Le Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 08:40:32PM +0300, Mikko Hänninen ecrivit:
> 
> If you want that, then you need to create a shell-script which does the
> expansion for you, and call that from $signature instead.

A nice way is to use a FIFO:

mkfifo ~/.sig

while :; do
# Something to populate ~/.sig
# ...
# ...
done

And use ~/.sig as your signature file, for your mail or news client.

eg:

mkfifo ~/.sig

while :; do
/usr/games/fortune -sa > ~/.sig
done &


Then try 'cat ~/.sig' a few times...