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Piping to commands

Posted May 29, 2008 16:22 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: Piping to commands by corbet
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor reviews Claws Mail

I think you could construct something like that by creating an action that 
pipes into a shell script that calls kdialog (or a similar tool).  Maybe 
something like this:

#!/bin/sh
exec `kdialog --inputbox "Enter command to pipe into" ""`

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Piping to commands

Posted May 29, 2008 16:26 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Actually, Claws Mail has a way to accept a string which then gets piped into the canned command. So one could write a script which reads the string and interprets it as a command to be run with the file containing the email as input. Should work, I just need to mess with it some. But it should be easier...