Quoth fe...@crowfix.com on Monday, 30 August 2010: > I've just started thinking on all this capability which I did not know > existed in mutt. Is there a way to assign an external command to a > key which will be passed the path to the message? For instance, if I > write a dumb little shell script to move a message into the spam > maildir ... > > #!/bin/sh > mv -i "$@" ~/Maildirs/junk/new > > can I assign that command to a key so that when I hit the key, it > invokes the command with the path to the message on that line? > > Mutt has so much more capability than I realized that I may be > fantasizing a bit much here. > > I also realize that this path passing is only useful for maildirs, not > mailboxes or imap/pop. But that's fine with me. > > -- > ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. > Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com > GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 > I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room > o
If you just want to move the message, use <save-message>. But you can always define a macro that pipes the message to a script, and then you can do whatever you want with it. If it needs to be passed as a file to another script, you can write it to a tmp file and pass that. I have a script called 'farg' for that purpose: #!/bin/sh file=`mktemp /tmp/farg.XXXXXX` cat > $file `printf "$1" $file` if [ "`echo $1 | cut -c 1-6`" = "spawn " ] then sleep 5 fi rm $file The first argument is a printf format for the command to launch, where %s will be replaced by the tmp file generated from stdin. If the process is being spawned, then I wait five seconds so the spawned process can pick it up before I delete it. Here's spawn: #!/bin/sh $* & -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com
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