On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Wednesday, June 17 at 09:28 AM, quoth Kyle Wheeler: > >According to the mutt man page, the usage pattern line you're looking > >for is this one: > > > > mutt [-nx] [-e cmd] [-F file] [-H file] [-i file] [-s subj] > > [-b addr] [-c addr] [-a file [...] --] addr [...] > > > >Essentially, there can be two lists at the end (one of files to attach > >and the other of addresses, and they must be separated by a > >double-hyphen. In other words, your command should be rewritten: > > > > mutt -s "Documents you required" -a file1 file2 file3 -- > > myfri...@somewhere > > > >Make sense? > > If you're wondering "why on earth would they do that?!?" here's the > answer: > > mutt -s "Documents you required" -a file* -- myfri...@somewhere > > The change allows you to use shell wildcards to match multiple > filenames.
I now see the change. I've often wanted this behaviour (which seems more intuitive), but got used to the former... and my resistance to change got the better of me; the sudden change put me off for a while. Thanks for the clarification, and I'll read the man page more carefully. :-) Kumar -- Kumar
