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Re: Recipe syntax problem

1997-04-05 19:25:00
MAILBOX <dnhunt(_at_)rain(_dot_)org> wrote:
:On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Tim wrote:
:       { FORMAIL=`ksh -c "echo ~vjl/bin/formail"` }
:
:And I wonder about the tilde in line five. Your recipe didn't get that
:far on the example you sent, but procmail won't expand tildes, if that
:is what you wanted it to do. Or will it, in this case? I haven't tried
:using ksh this way in setting a var.

ksh will expand the variable, as will many shells; procmail doesn't
have to, therefore.  It works.

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