cygwin-email utility clipping attached zips

[Joey Officer]

heh, I seem to have sparked a short debate on bash scripting 
syntax/verbage.  Suffice it to say, my original way worked, this way 
would most likely work, and I'm sure there are a number of alternative 
ways to get the same egg scrambled.

I appreciate everyone's input, I really just wanted to share how I got 
it working in case anyone else needed something similar.

regards,
joey


Brian Dessent wrote:
> Matt Wozniski wrote:
> 
>>> email user@example -s test -a "$(sh -c 'IFS=,; echo "$*"' -- *.pdf)" \
>>>                 <sample.txt
>> But that won't work for files with commas in the name!  (Rare, but it
>> can happen...)  I'd prefer something like
> 
> This still works fine for filenames with commas since it uses $* which
> joins the positional parameters which have already been split (before
> the subprocess was even invoked), before IFS is changed to ",".
> 
> But if a filename has a comma in its name then it is impossible to
> express it as a list of comma-separated filenames without some form of
> quoting.  And I doubt that the email program has backslash-escape
> parsing logic for this very rare case (but I haven't checked.) 
> Regardless, this:
> 
>> email user@example -s test -a "$(ls -1 *.pdf | tr '\n' ',' )" < sample.txt
> 
> ...does not solve the problem either.  You get the same output as above,
> except with an erronious trailing ",".
> 
> Brian
> 
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