On 01 Feb 2003 20:54:08 -0400 Adolfo Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 20:26, Todd Slater wrote: > > On 01 Feb 2003 16:47:02 -0400 > > Adolfo Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <x> > > > My final script is: > > > > > > date -R > /tmp/fecha.txt > > > uptime > /tmp/corriendo.txt > > > /usr/games/fortune > /tmp/dicho.txt > > > echo "--<br>" > > > cat ~/scripts/firma.txt /tmp/fecha.txt /tmp/corriendo.txt > > > /tmp/dicho.txt| sed -e "s/ /\ /g" | sed -e "s/$/<br>/g" > > > > > > As you can see is working just fine. > > > > > > Goshhhhhh!!!! > > > > Of course there a zillion ways to do this, but writing all that output > > to other files is not necessary. For example, > > > > echo "firma o lo que quieras" > > date -R > > uptime > > fortune > > > > does the same thing. The echo "--<br>" I think should be echo "-- " > > (two hyphens and a space) and may not even be necessary depending on > > your MUA; Sylpheed uses that as a delimiter by default, I think > > Mozilla too, don't know Evolution. > > > > Todd > You're partially right. > > Evolution takes as input some sort of HTML format, so you have to > replace spaces used for formatting by " " (no quotes). This is the > reason for > sed -e "s/ /\ /g" > > Additionally, you have to make your own HTML end-of-line, so you need: > sed -e "s/$/<br>/g" > > Finally, Evolution doesn't insert the "--" line to signal the beginning > for script generated signatures. That's the reason for > echo "--<br>" > > This way, using your script, I will need to use the two sed pipes in > every line. Nothing wrong with that, but I prefer using them only once > even when my script has to write three times to disk. > Ohhh, now I understand. Thanks for reminding me why I *don't* use Evolution ;) Your script would be perfect if you used echo "-- <br>" instead of echo "--<br>". Todd -- Todd Slater Mandrake Newbie searchable archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbie&r=1&w=2 Got a great Mandrake-Linux tip bookmarked? Send it to me and I'll include it in my newbie tips fortune file!
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