[email protected] wrote: > David Levine <[email protected]> writes: > >Norm wrote: > > > >> Suppose I want to do something like: > >> > >> mts=/usr/local/nmh/etc/mts.conf #depends on installation > >> sed < $mts >| /tmp/mts.conf -e '/^servers:/s/:.*/: localhost/' > >> MHMTSCONF=/tmp/mts.conf mhmail norm -from norm -subject "$1" > >> > >> But replacing /usr/local/nmh/etc/mts.conf with the location of mts.conf. > >> Is there some way a script can know the location of nmh's etc directory? > > > >`mhparam etcdir` > > OK. I will use it. Thank you. > > But without you to hold my hands, how could I have known that? > It's not in the mhparam man page, In fact, share/doc/nmh/README.manpages and > bin/mhparam are the only files anywhere in the nmh-1.5 hierarchy in which > the string "etcdir" occurs. Also 'mhparam -all | grep etc' shows nothing.
i'll bet a patch to the man page would be welcomed! :-) (i didn't know about it either, and needed the "libdir" variant just the other day, to find the "ap" command.) paul =--------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 59.0 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
