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From: creubank@crls.sony.co.jp (Curtis Eubanks)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Help with forwarding to a shell
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Date: 26 Sep 89 01:27:58 GMT
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Organization: Sony Corporation, Corporate Research Laboratories, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan.
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I'm setting up a .forward file as follows:

\creubank, "| /bin/sed '1,/^Do this/d'|/bin/csh"

This should allow me to remotely execute a series of csh commands by
simply sending a message to myself with the shell commands following a
"Do this" line.

I'm getting such mail returned with a "getwd: can't stat ." error.
Can someone explain this?  I'm running it on Sun 4.

					-creubank
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