Re: mutt header strangeness

[Mike Brownlow <mike@wsmake.org>]

Ron Farrer wrote:
> 
> Hey all;
> 
> I have the following line in my .muttrc: 
> my_hdr X-Operating-System: `uname -a`
> 
> For some reason all it reports is "Linux mustang 2.2.14" why? IMHO it should 
> be "Linux mustang 2.2.14 #1 Sat Jan 8 16:09:20 PST 2000 alpha unknown".

I think that the '#' is being interpreted as a comment at runtime. In
this email I used:

my_hdr X-Operating-System: `uname -a|sed -e 's/#/Number /'`

and it worked. Which means it ignores '#' inside command expansion,
but not the final value. Neat.

-- 
Mike Brownlow