* On 17 Apr 2012, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:36:04AM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> > TTY=$(tty); echo mymaildir | xargs -I{} sh -c "mutt -f '{}' <$TTY"
>
> Nice! I wasn't familiar with that usage of xargs...
It even appears to be fairly portable. BSD xargs also has -o, which
does all the tty redirection for you.
echo mailmaildir | xargs -o mutt -f
Actually using /dev/tty should be adequate, instead of worrying about
$(tty):
echo mymaildir | xargs -I{} sh -c "mutt -f '{}' </dev/tty"
I just have $tty defined in my interactive shells as routine matter, so
I translated it directly.
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