On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 08:59:17AM -0400, David Thorburn-Gundlach wrote:
> % #!/bin/sh
> % echo j>>$HOME/.jay
> % cat $HOME/.jay| tr -d \\012
>
> Couldn't you simply
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo -n j >> $HOME/.jay
>
> and be done with it?
no, mutt needs an \n at the end. And If i start playing around wirth a
script, I figured I can make it at least a bit robust so it doesn't fail
if someone clears ~/.jay with "echo >~/.jay"
:-)
CU,
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