* Nori Heikkinen (nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu) [021121 11:35]: > okay, now i wanted to try this for myself, but can't get it working. > if i've read the muttrc man page correctly, all i need to do is make a > ~/.signature file that has the line > > /home/nori/bin/formatted_sig.prl > > and that is all? `cat /home/nori/.signature` works fine from the This is because without a #! line, your shell guesses to execute it with $SHELL. mutt can't do that. You should always use a #! for your shell scripts, so that they can be executed from programs other than your shell. > command line ... but i'm failing to understand where i should put a > pipe. should ~/.signature instead be ~/.signature| ? here's the Use set signature="~/bin/formatted_sig.prl|" you could instead set signature="~/.signature|" where ~/.signature looks like #!/bin/sh ~/bin/formatted_sig.prl # EOF or just #!/home/nori/bin/formatted_sig.prl Either of these last 2 ways is a useless layer of redirection, though; just call the script directly from your muttrc with the first set signature line I showed above. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." --President Thomas Jefferson.
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