From: Eric Sunshine Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:26:20 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] doc: give examples for send-email cc-cmd operation Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Eric Sunshine wrote: > If you really want to give an example of how to use --cc-cmd > (--to-cmd) with a plain text file holding email addresses, maybe > something like this instead: > > Create an EXAMPLES section. > > Make the bare-bones, static address list script the first example: > > #!/bin/sh > echo <<\EOF > person1@example.com > person2@example.com > EOF > > Then add an example showing how to take the fixed address list from a > plain text file. Have the user create the following script (let's call > it "anticat") which cat's all of its input arguments except the final > one, which is the patch itself: > > #!/bin/sh > while test $# -gt 1 > do > cat $1 > shift > done > > And, to use: --to-cccmd='anticat myaddresses.txt' I forgot to add that even this is iffy as an example because it depends upon the current implementation passing the cmd string to a shell, which might not always be the case, and might not be reliably implemented that way on some platforms (such as Windows).