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Re: [nmh-workers] 'dist' in "1 line noninteractive script"

2019-07-25 11:18:41
On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:09:38 -0500, nmh@trodman.com said:

On Tue 7/23/19 21:44 -0400 Ken Hornstein wrote:
  mhannotate=Resent mhaltmsg=~/Mail/sent/bar mhdist=1 send 
~/Mail/drafts/foo

It wouldn't surprise me that the problem is that ~ in mhaltmsg.  Is that
actually being expanded?  If you run send with -debug, do you maybe
see a message saying "$mhaltmsg mismatch"?

$ ( set -x ; x=~ true )
+ x=/a/rodmant
+ true

So bash expands ~ before send sees it.

But that may not be true for something that invokes execve() rather than
system(), or a cronjob (which is what started this discussion).

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