At 15:08 2004-01-25 -0800, Curtis Doty wrote:
Can anyone explain why this rc snippet:
FOO=`< /proc/loadavg`
Procmail itself isn't a shell, so the redirection operator isn't
meaningful. If I read this correctly, you're in effect running a shell,
and redirecting the contents of loadavg into that shell, which results in
nothing (on STDOUT at least -- STDERR is a different matter). Try:
sh < /proc/loadavg
and see what you get.
sh < /proc/loadavg > somefile
somefile will contain what procmail would bave been handed.
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