Thomas Adam wrote:
--- Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca> wrote:I've written a little shell that generates this string and calls itBy "shell" I'll assume you mean a shell-script -- quite why you'd want to do that when you could use an alias, is beyond me... [..snip..] Have you tried doing something like... alias cmd='whatever --program "you want" --with-some options' Then you can type: cmd
yeah, but I want the command do be dyanmically generated from a list of mailboxes -- so that whatever mboxes are fed to the script get opened up in separate tabs of a new m-g-t window. so alias isn't really flexible enough.
but thx anyway... matt
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