Greetings!
When in the index, if I press:
!<ENTER>
I spawn the correct interactive shell (as defined in my ~/.muttrc):
$ grep shell ~/.muttrc
## environment variable in the shell.
set shell=/usr/freeware/bin/bash
I verify this by doing:
$ echo $0
/usr/freeware/bin/bash
However if I try to execute shell escaped commands from the index
without spawning an interactive shell, I see that sh is used:
!echo $0
sh
Because the machine in question is an irix machine, /bin/sh != /bin/bash,
and irix's sh cannot resolve '~'.[1] So I get:
!ls ~
Cannot access ~: No such file or directory
This is a bit frustrating as I tend to do a lot of shell-escaped
commands with arguments relative to my home directory. (And '~' is much
easier to type than "$HOME". :-)
Am I stuck with sh when doing:
!command [ arg [ arg ... ]]
or can I somehow get mutt to execute this form of shell-escaped command
with my choice of shell?
Thanks!
David
[1] Some of you may point out that starting with irix 6.5, sh is a
symlink to ksh, and ksh resolves '~'. But ksh's behavior is
different depending on $0. In a number of ways, it acts like
the Bourne shell if invoked as "sh". '~' only resolves when ksh
is invoked as ksh. :-(
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