On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:50:34 -0600, Philip Guenther
<guenther(_at_)gac(_dot_)edu>
wrote:
"John D. Hardin" <jhardin(_at_)wolfenet(_dot_)com> writes:
$@ isn't working as documented, and I wonder if anyone can see what I
I could have sworn this limitation was documented somewhere in the
manpages, but I can't find it now:
$ man procmailrc | colcrt | fgrep -A10 BUGS
BUGS
The only substitutions of environment variables that can be handled by
procmail itself are of the type $name, ${name}, ${name:-text},
${name:+text}, ${name-text}, ${name+text}, $#, $n, $$, $?, $ , $- and $=;
-
whereas $ will be substituted by the name of the current rcfile, $- by
-
$LASTFOLDER and $= will contain the score of the last recipe. When the -a
or -m options are used, "$@" will expand to respectively the specified ar-
gument (list); but only when passed as in the argument list to a program.
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