cygwin-email utility clipping attached zips

Brian Dessent brian@dessent.net
Wed Jan 10 18:20:00 GMT 2007


Saro Engels wrote:

> I wasn't right:
> It should be:
> $ file=*.pdf; file=`echo $file | sed "s/ /,/g"`
> $ echo $file
> $ email user@domain.com -s test -a $file < sample.txt

Firstly this can be simplified to simply:

email user@example -s test -a $(echo *.pdf|sed "s/ /,/g") <sample.txt

but this will not work if any filename or pathname contains spaces.  You
can solve that with:

email user@example -s test -a "$(sh -c 'IFS=,; echo "$*"' -- *.pdf)" \
		<sample.txt

Brian

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