valdis(_dot_)kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu wrote:
No `#'? How about just always send to the user's shell from the
password entry with a -c, as distinct from /bin/sh.
The problem is that some people (at least in the Elder TImes) would have
their login shell set to /bin/csh but they'd want their scripty things done
in
/bin/sh. (I used to do that myself, way back when csh had ! history and sh
didn't until it became bash).
the request that started this thread was simply to be able to use
"less -force" instead of "less" as moreproc. many more clever tricks
(pipelines, redirection) are the same in most shells, and users
(especially mh users!) are adaptable: they can either write their
scriptlet in sh syntax even if it's not their favorite, or create a
wrapper if it needs to be in scsh.
summary: i think passing any moreproc entry that contains whitespace
to "/bin/sh -c '%s'", and documenting it as such, would be fine.
processes aren't nearly as expensive as they used to be.
paul
p.s. incidentally, mh-profile.5 mentions $SHELL only in the context
of bbl, which no longer exists.
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paul fox, pgf(_at_)foxharp(_dot_)boston(_dot_)ma(_dot_)us (arlington, ma,
where it's 67.6 degrees)
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