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And thank you as well Brian.

I'm still fairly new to bash scripting, and am unfamiliar with all of 
the tools that make our lives easier.

Thanks for the additions.

Regards,
joey


Brian Dessent wrote:
> Saro Engels wrote:
> 
>> I wasn't right:
>> It should be:
>> $ file=*.pdf; file=`echo $file | sed "s/ /,/g"`
>> $ echo $file
>> $ email user AT domain DOT com -s test -a $file < sample.txt
> 
> Firstly this can be simplified to simply:
> 
> email user AT example -s test -a $(echo *.pdf|sed "s/ /,/g") <sample.txt
> 
> but this will not work if any filename or pathname contains spaces.  You
> can solve that with:
> 
> email user AT example -s test -a "$(sh -c 'IFS=,; echo "$*"' -- *.pdf)" \
> 		<sample.txt
> 
> Brian
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