On 2012-04-17, Andrei Mikhailov wrote:
> Thank you !
> I think I now understand, more or less, why it does not work as expected.
> Perhaps my question is more about Linux, than about Mutt. What I really
> want to achieve is the following:
>
> echo "mydata" | myscript.sh
>
> where myscript.sh is the following:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> some-program-which-reads-from-stdin.sh
> mutt
>
> In other words, the script first reads the pipe and does something,
> and then just calls mutt.
> Somehow, beteween ``some-program-...'' and ``mutt'' I have to insert
> some command, saying:
> ``finished reading pipe, control is now returning to the terminal''
> Is that possible?
> Is it possible to call Mutt from within scripts accepting pipe input?
Yes. You just need to connect mutt's stdin to a terminal, e.g.,
#!/bin/bash
do-something-with-data-read-from-stdin
< /dev/tty mutt your-mutt-options
Regards,
Gary
