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Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap

From Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap
Date 2021-09-18 00:30 +0200
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On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 07:43:25AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>Unfortunately, it breaks in Bourne-family shells.
snip
>In Bourne/POSIX/bash, semicolon is a command terminator or separator,
>and may not appear by itself, or at the start of a command.  It may
>appear at the end.

Good catch! I never actually tried a plain ';', so I hadn't hit that.
When I appropriated the idea, I prefixed it with ':' in order to get
my hostname into the line too (: hostname ;), side-stepping the issue.

-- 

Jonathan Dowland
https://jmtd.net

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Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-15 15:40 +0200
  Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-09-15 17:50 +0200
    Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-15 20:00 +0200
      Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-15 20:20 +0200
        Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-15 20:20 +0200
        Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-15 21:20 +0200
          Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-15 23:30 +0200
            Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-16 04:40 +0200
              Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-16 08:30 +0200
              Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-16 12:40 +0200
                Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-19 06:50 +0200
        Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-09-16 09:50 +0200
          Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-16 11:10 +0200
          Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-16 13:50 +0200
            Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-09-18 00:30 +0200
  Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 09:40 +0200
    Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-16 12:10 +0200

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