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Subject: Re: OT .signature files From: Tom Gilbert <tom@tomgilbert.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 20:35:19 +0000 * jack wallen jr (jwallen@techrepublic.com) wrote: > anyone know how to do the same in Pine? Yeah. Same way. (I used to use Pine before I discovered mutt) Press S for setup, then C for configure. Go to the signature-file option, and enter: uptime| Here's an excerpt from Pine's online help (press ? on the sig option) > If the filename is followed by a vertical bar (|) then instead of reading > the contents of the file the file is assumed to be a program which will > produce the text to be used on its standard output. The program can't have > any arguments and doesn't receive any input from Pine, but the rest of the > processing works as if the contents came from a file. If you just want uptime, do the "uptime|" thing, otherwise, use a script to combine text and output, such as: #!/bin/bash echo "-- " echo "This is my funny quote:" fortune echo "This is my uptime:" uptime Call the script mysig, and put the value "mysig|" in the signature-file option in Pine. Try not to create appawlingly huge .sigs this way, for fortune, try using the -n option to restrict the length. Tom. -- .-------------------------------------------------------. .^. | Tom Gilbert, England | tom@tomgilbert.freeserve.co.uk | /V\ |----------------------| www.tomgilbert.freeserve.co.uk | // \\ | Sites I recommend: `--------------------------------| /( )\ | www.freshmeat.net www.enlightenment.org slashdot.org | ^^-^^ `-------------------------------------------------------' ===