[Users] fortune and action

Andrej Kacian andrej at kacian.sk
Thu Aug 22 17:46:12 CEST 2013


On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:19:44 +0200
Andreas Meyer <anmeyer at anup.de> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> Years ago I used fortune to add some signatures to sent email by
> creating an action | /usr/bin/fortune /home/andreas/signatures |
> 
> Now I wanted to use it again, but when I call the action to insert
> it into the email, the already written text disappears and just the
> signature is shown. What can I do?

Hi Andreas,

try ending the action with '>' instead of '|'.

Regards,
-- 
Andrej Kacian <andrej at kacian dot sk>



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