On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:09:38 -0500, n...@trodman.com said: > On Tue 7/23/19 21:44 -0400 Ken Hornstein wrote: > >> mhannotate=Resent mhaltmsg=~/Mail/sent/bar mhdist=1 send > >> ~/Mail/drafts/foo > > > >It wouldn't surprise me that the problem is that ~ in mhaltmsg. Is that > >actually being expanded? If you run send with -debug, do you maybe > >see a message saying "$mhaltmsg mismatch"? > > $ ( set -x ; x=~ true ) > + x=/a/rodmant > + true > > So bash expands ~ before send sees it.
But that may not be true for something that invokes execve() rather than system(), or a cronjob (which is what started this discussion).
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