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Re: Is there a way to have mutt automatically run a script at



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On Thursday, December 25 at 07:56 PM, quoth Chris Jones:
>`ls > /tmp/ls`
>
>.. in my .muttrc .. and despite an error message to the effect that the
>command doesn't exist .. it actually works.

The reason it generates the error is because mutt doesn't ignore empty 
strings. Therefore, it's trying to interpret the empty string as if it 
was a command. You can silence the error like so:

     set my_junk=`ls > /tmp/ls`

~Kyle
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