SLUG Mailing List Archives - Re: [SLUG] Security and catting to an env variable (Was: mkdir and $?)

To: Penguinillas <slug@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Security and catting to an env variable (Was: mkdir and $?)
From: Jeff Waugh <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Jul 7 00:22:02 2001
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<quote who="Andre Pang">

> looks like your approach works, although i'd be inclined to do
> 
>     STDIN=$(tee -a pantslog)	# you sure you don't want cat > pantslog?
>     mail jdub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx < pantslog

No, tee -a means that I'm appending to a file, and putting everything out to
stdin as well, so if I just mailed pantslog, you would get the entire
appended file, not just the current bit in stdin. :)

- Jeff

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References:
- Re: [SLUG] Security and catting to an env variable (Was: mkdir and $?)
  - From: Andre Pang

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