On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxx > person2@xxxxxxxxxxx > 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). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html