Re: -v ?

On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Daniel Stenberg <daniel.stenberg_at_autodiagnos.se> wrote:
>
> Craig A Summerhill wrote:
> >
> > > How are your feelings about this today?
> >
> > Well, if somebody wants to strip the comments, it could be easy enough
> > piping the command to a 'grep -v'.
> >
> > csh> hypermail -c /path-to/.hmrc -v | grep -v '^#' | grep -v '^$'
>
> Indeed.
>
> > But this doesn't really help generate a blank template, unless your
> > .hmrc config file has *all* the variables displayed in it.
>
> Surely it does? It always outputs all the variables it knows about.
> It displays all unchanged as commented and the ones that were set in
> the config file uncommented.

Not if you pipe the "hypermail -v" into a "grep -v" to eliminate the comment lines. The current output from the hypermail -v flag is to include all unspecified variables as comments in the output. E.g.

   # Define path as the path to a template  file  containing
   # valid HTML formatting statements you wish to use at the
   # bottom of every message page.
   #mhtmlfooterfile =

It does look like the output puts a "# " before the actual comments for each variable and simply a "#" before the variable name. I suppose modifying my command above to this does the trick for building a template (note the inclusion of a space after the "#"):

   csh> hypermail -c /path-to/.hmrc -v | grep -v '^# ' | grep -v '^$'

> I made the internal function capable of generating a list of only the
> variables actually set in the config file (or by environment variables)
> so it would be very easy to add in case we want it.

Just a curiosity, but since you effectively did away with the options.h file, how does one compile with a global environment variable?

On my binary (most recent I've installed is 2a16) the "hypermail -v" alone returns all variables as commented out. I assume this means there are no global environment variables compiled into my binary.

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