Merci! On 06/19/01, 11:45:05PM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Tuesday, 19 June 2001 at 23:40, John P. Verel wrote: > > Hi, Brendan. > > > > Thanks for a cool script! Its beauty is what is accomplished in just 5 > > lines! Two questions, though, if I may? > > > > What is the purpose of the sleep command? > > that was so the cp in the background process was sure to finish before > the script returned and mutt unlinked the master file. But looking at > it, this is a better way of doing it (and shorter too): > > #!/bin/sh > cp $2 $2.tmp > ($1 $2.tmp; rm -f $2.tmp) & > > > Any special reason for calling this as a Bourne shell and not Bash? > > no. -- John P. Verel Norwalk, CT
