On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 07:04:12PM -0700, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: > Alas! Rob 'Feztaa' Park spake thus: > > > I'm into overkill today. > > > > > > You could put that in a script such as the one I've attached, and run > > > it from .muttrc like this: > > > > > > source `$HOME/bin/mutt-prep folders=$HOME/mail` > > Thanks for your help, guys, this is what I've come up with: > > my .muttrc contains this line: > > source `~/bin/mbox-hooks`
This has been a great discussion. I didn't know mutt could source the output of a command. > and the script is attached. > #!/bin/bash ... > # Change back into the previous directory (this outputs text that we don't want) > cd - > /dev/null 2>&1 This is not necessary. The command within `s is executed as a child process of mutt. Unix child processes cannot affect the working directory of their parent. So, none of the cd'ing within the mbox-hooks command will have any effect on mutt's working directory. Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Spokane, Washington, USA http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/ |
