On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 08:59:17AM -0400, David Thorburn-Gundlach wrote:
> ...and then Stefan `Sec` Zehl said...
> %
> % #!/bin/sh
> % echo j>>$HOME/.jay
> % cat $HOME/.jay| tr -d \\012
> Couldn't you simply
> #!/bin/sh
> echo -n j >> $HOME/.jay
I found indeed having this in .typescript instead:
#!/bin/sh
echo -n j >> $HOME/.jay
cat $HOME/.jay
echo
that it does work. Perhaps he introduced the \012 trickery,
working with the problem of mutt needing a complete line for a
command substitution. This is the reason for the echo at the end,
I think. Thanks again for the help.
--
Greg Matheson
Chinmin College, Taiwan
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