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Re: mutt header strangeness



Mike Brownlow wrote:
> Ron Farrer wrote:
> > 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.

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

-- 
Mike Brownlow


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