[Users] fortune and action

[Andreas Meyer]

Hello!

Andrej Kacian <andrej at kacian.sk> wrote:

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

oh yes, that works. Thank you!

  Andreas

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