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Re: cygwin-email utility clipping attached zips


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

But that won't work for files with commas in the name! (Rare, but it can happen...) I'd prefer something like

email user@example -s test -a "$(ls -1 *.pdf | tr '\n' ',' )" < sample.txt

Which would only fail if the file name had embedded newlines.  I
suppose `email' probably wouldn't be able to process a file with an
embedded comma in the name one way or the other, but I find this sort
of solution more portable than messing with IFS.

~Matt

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