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From: Joakim Ryden <jryden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: $mailpath and Maildir
Date: 05 Feb 2002 01:01:03 -0800
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this probably is in some document somewhere but i remember when i set my
maildirs up it wasn't totally obvious to me that you had to escape the
$.

--Jo


On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 23:08, Will Yardley wrote:
> Joakim Ryden wrote:
> > this "works for me[TM]":
> > 
> > export MAILPATH="$HOME/Maildir?You have new mail in
> > \$_.:$HOME/Maildir/.maildir2?You have new mail in
> > \$_.:$HOME/Maildir/.maildir3?You have new mail in
> > \$_.:$HOME/Maildir/.maildir4?You have new mail in
> > \$_.:$HOME/Maildir/.maildir5?You have new mail in
> > \$_.:$HOME/Maildir/.maildir6?You have new mail in \$_."
> 
> d'oh.... just needed to escape the "$".  you may all give me 50 lashes
> with a wet noodle now.
> 
> w
>

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