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List:       mutt-users
Subject:    Re: Starting shell command with name of current mailbox as
From:       Aron Griffis <agriffis () n01se ! net>
Date:       2009-01-20 17:16:30
Message-ID: 20090120171629.GA3630 () griffis1 ! net
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Noah Sheppard wrote:  [Tue Jan 20 2009, 11:41:11AM EST]
> As yet I don't know how to pass a mutt variable as the argument
> to a shell command.  

You can't with simple <shell-escape> but you can by a sequence
such as...

<enter-command> set my_shell=$shell<enter><enter-command> set shell="blah blah \
$somevar blah"<enter><shell-escape><enter><enter-command> set shell=$my_shell<enter>


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