From: Pavol Juhas <juhas@seas.upenn.edu>
To: ZShell Users <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: global alias as function - "--attach"
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:44:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030611174458.GA28953@seas.upenn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030611131317.GA13170@math.fu-berlin.de>
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:13:17PM +0200, Sven Guckes wrote:
> can i use a global alias as a function within a command?
>
> the real problem:
> someone asked (yet again) whether mutt (the mailer)
> can attach a list of files or a directory of files.
> this is not possible yet - mutt can only attach files given
> on the command line when *every* file is preceded by "-a".
>
> suggestion:
> a patch might get this to work (as usual).
> however, i can imagine something like this:
>
> mutt --attach file dir/ -xyz
>
> here, the "--attach" would be a global alias
> which test the following parameters for
> files and files within directories.
Instead of using alias, you could write a wrapper script (or
shell function) for mutt, which would handle the --attach option
and call the normal /usr/bin/mutt.
Pavol
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-11 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-11 13:13 Sven Guckes
2003-06-11 15:53 ` DervishD
2003-06-11 16:00 ` Stephen Rueger
2003-06-11 17:44 ` Pavol Juhas [this message]
2003-06-11 20:33 ` Thorsten Haude
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