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Thanks for the tip, effortless.
I use crontab to occasionally update my signature file so as not
to have to do it on each outgoing mail item, and because I use
the information for other purposes as well and need it to be
updated even when not sending a lot of email.
Good suggestion though.
Chuck
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Effortless Union with the Divine wrote:
> Regarding dynamic signatures and static content, in other words having
> stuff which changes and stuff which remains the same, a simple Perl
> script will do you right:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> print `whatever command you want piped`;
> open SIG,"$ENV{HOME}/.signature";
> while (<SIG>) { print; }
> close sig;
>
> Save those five lines in a file called signature, chmod +x it to make it
> executable, then use that as the program to pipe to your signature. The
> script will include your .signature file that you normally use. Remember
> to get all the punctuation right, and replace the command in
> accent-marks with the one you want to execute, like `pom` for the phase
> of the moon. Hope this helps.
>
>
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