cygwin-email utility clipping attached zips

Joey Officer jofficer@wi.rr.com
Wed Jan 10 20:01:00 GMT 2007


And thank you as well Brian.

I'm still fairly new to bash scripting, and am unfamiliar with all of 
the tools that make our lives easier.

Thanks for the additions.

Regards,
joey


Brian Dessent wrote:
> 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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