* Kyle Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-07-28 16:52 -0500]: > On Monday, July 28 at 09:29 PM, quoth Michael Kjorling: > > Something like this: > > > > source "gpg -d sensitivestuff.gpg |" > > No. That can't work (but we can salvage this idea). First, let me > explain why it can't work. > > Think about it: what does the "source" command tell mutt to do? It > tells mutt "read the file with the following name". Even in situations > where ending an item in a pipe means something to mutt, it means "use > the output of this command in place of this variable whenever you need > it".
For source, the ending pipe means: If the filename ends with a vertical bar (|), then filename is considered to be an executable program from which to read input (eg. source ~/bin/myscript|). Why do you think, mutt tries to re-read the the script's output at some time? Nicolas (using source script|) -- http://www.rachinsky.de/nicolas
