Re: mailcap

[Christian Ebert <blacktrash@xxxxxxx>]

* Dave Dodge on Wednesday, October 04, 2006 at 20:33:56 -0400:
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 01:47:04PM +0200, Christian Ebert wrote:
>> $ grep pdftotext ~/.mailcap
>> application/pdf; pdftotext -layout %s -; copiousoutput
> 
> BTW if you do need to use standard input for some reason, some Unix
> systems have a /dev/stdin which is basically a filesystem alias for it:
> 
>   pdftotext -layout /dev/stdin - < file.pdf

Oh, then, with xpdf and pdftotext, one can do

application/pdf; xpdf /dev/stdin; test=test $DISPLAY
application/pdf; pdftotext -layout /dev/stdin -; copiousoutput

in mailcap, and doesn't even need to create a temporary file.

c
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