Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!schaefer
From: schaefer@ogicse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: 2 questions
Message-ID: <13178@ogicse.ogi.edu>
Date: 22 Oct 90 01:41:08 GMT
References: <730@parcplace.com>
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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In article <730@parcplace.com> khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw) writes:
} 
} 2. Is there a way to pass mush variables to an external executable
}    invoked by a "pipe" command [...?]

Script started on Sun Oct 21 18:31:40 1990
<1> mush -rN
"/usr/spool/mail/schaefer" [read only]: 14 messages, 0 new, 1 unread
(6:31) #12:14-0> pipe "echo $thisfolder; cat > /dev/null"
/usr/spool/mail/schaefer
(6:32) #12:14-0> x
<2> ^D
script done on Sun Oct 21 18:32:49 1990

I don't know what you're doing wrong -- try giving the "debug" command
before you attempt the pipe.  This will at least show you what arguments
are getting passed to "pipe".
-- 
Bart Schaefer						schaefer@cse.ogi.edu