Mutt and Paths

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Aug 5 10:55:00 GMT 2004


On Aug  5 03:42, George wrote:
> If this is mutt-specific I apologise in advance but I'm trying to figure 
> out why shell commands executed within mutt fail if the command includes 
> the '~' notation.  For example:
> 
> !less /etc/passwd   # works
> !less ~/.muttrc     # fails - no such file or directory
> 
> What's curious is that in the second example, mutt does seem to expand 
> '~' on its command-line (tab completion works), but the command itself 
> fails.

Very likely mutt calls system() to run these commands which in turn
starts a subshell to run these commands under.  The subshell is /bin/sh
which doesn't understand the ~ notation.

Corinna

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