From: Rusty Hoover <rusty@panix.com>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Mailpath notification message
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 00:37:29 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199610240437.AAA06564@panix2.panix.com> (raw)
Shouldn't this line:
export MAILPATH="~/.mailspool/rusty:~/Mail/z?Zsh mail."
in my .zshenv give me, whenever i return to my
command-line prompt, the message: "Zsh mail." ?
It doesn't. What am i doing wrong? Do i need spaces around the question
mark?
>From the zsh man:
mailpath (MAILPATH) An array (colon-separated list) of filenames to check
for new mail. Each filename can be followed by a ? and a
message that will be printed. The message will undergo
parameter expansion, command substitution and arithmetic
substitution with the variable $_ defined as the name of the
file that has changed. The default message is "You have new
mail." If an element is a directory instead of a file the
shell will recursively check every file in every
subdirectory of the element.
--
Rusty Hoover
rusty@panix.com
mqw@inch.com
rjh@well.com
next reply other threads:[~1996-10-24 4:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-24 4:37 Rusty Hoover [this message]
1996-10-24 5:20 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
1996-11-05 20:13 ` Nate Johnston
1996-11-05 21:19 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-11-06 5:56 ` Dan Nelson
1996-10-24 7:35 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-10-24 8:41 ` Duncan Sargeant
1996-10-24 9:11 ` Peter Stephenson
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