valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > > > No `#'? How about just always send to the user's shell from the > > password entry with a -c, as distinct from /bin/sh. > > The problem is that some people (at least in the Elder TImes) would have > their login shell set to /bin/csh but they'd want their scripty things done > in > /bin/sh. (I used to do that myself, way back when csh had ! history and sh > didn't until it became bash).
the request that started this thread was simply to be able to use "less -force" instead of "less" as moreproc. many more clever tricks (pipelines, redirection) are the same in most shells, and users (especially mh users!) are adaptable: they can either write their scriptlet in sh syntax even if it's not their favorite, or create a wrapper if it needs to be in scsh. summary: i think passing any moreproc entry that contains whitespace to "/bin/sh -c '%s'", and documenting it as such, would be fine. processes aren't nearly as expensive as they used to be. paul p.s. incidentally, mh-profile.5 mentions $SHELL only in the context of bbl, which no longer exists. =--------------------- paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 67.6 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
