Re: getting the body quoted at the bottom instead of top of reply

David Gikandi wrote,

| When I use formail -rtk ... cat $FILE, I get the body
| of the incoming message quoted at the top of the reply
| sent out, then the $FILE contents. How can I get it
| quoted at the bottom instead, so that the $FILE
| contents come first, then the quoted body?

There are a couple approaches.

 :0fh # invert head and append file to it, leaving body untouched below
 | formail -rt ; cat $FILE

or, if you want to avoid forking shells,

 :0fh # invert head
 | formail -rt
 :0fb # prepend file to body; note trailing space and hyphen
 | cat $FILE -

or if you like annoying other people who have to maintain the code you write,

 :0f
 | formail -rtk | sed -e 1,/^$/!b -e "/^$/r $FILE"