Re: Mailcap question
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On Friday, June 23 at 04:21 PM, quoth Cameron Simpson:
>On 19Jun2006 13:07, kyle wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>| On Monday, June 19 at 06:00 PM, quoth Jos? G. Juanino:
>| > It does not work for me at least. I have the following entry in my
>| > .mailcap file:
>| >
>| > text/html; dillo %s >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null & ; description "HTLM Files"
>| >
>| > and dillo complains about the input file has vanished. I think mutt
>| > removes the file when no process holds the file open, as it uses the
>| > unlink system call after the temp file is created.
>|
>| Yeah... mutt does that. The way around it is to use something like a
>| protector script that does its own file management/cleanup. For
>| example, if you create this script (let's call it ~/.muttspawn.sh,
>| just for example's sake):
>|
>| #!/bin/sh
>| file="$1"
>| shift
>| cp "$file" "$file.saved"
>| "$@" "$file" >/dev/null 2>&1
>Shouldn't this -^ be "$file.saved" ?
Ooop, you're right. This is what happens when I type faster than I
think.
~Kyle
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