Re: [bug-mailutils] check flags before number of arguments

[Paul Vojta]

On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 01:30:38PM +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> address@hidden ha escrit:
> 
> > Perhaps the arguments should be checked better before the user gets
> > tangled into
> > $ mail -Hf file1 file2
> 
> It is not quite clear what was intended.  The `file2' argument is
> clearly a recipient email, and was understood as such.
> 
> Regards,
> Sergey

I think the original poster's problem stemmed from using wildcards
(as in the example given later using xargs or something).  Of course
doing "mail -f file address@hidden" is something that someone may want to do
at times, since one may want access to the messages in "file" using
tilde-escapes.  But with the H option this would not make sense, and
that is the complaint.

Having said that, though, the original user perhaps should look into
filename completion.

--Paul Vojta, address@hidden