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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.
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