Re: [Evolution] Signature wrapping?

[David McNab <david rebirthing co nz>]

On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 23:06, Jakob Breivik Grimstveit wrote:
> I've got a script like this which is set as my default signature:
>
> -=-=-=-=-
> #!/bin/sh
> cat ~/.sig
> echo "
> \n\n
> "
> /usr/games/fortune
> -=-=-=-=-
>
> As you can see, the result is less than fortunate. I want my line breaks
> to be conserved. How do I do this?
>
> Tnx in advance.

Stick html '<br>' tags at the end of each line.
If you're invoking other commands that can output multiple lines, pipe
them through sed.

So your above script will work if you change it to:

#!/bin/sh
cat ~/.sig | sed -e "s/$/<br>/g"
echo "<br><br><br>"
/usr/games/fortune | sed -e "s/$/<br>/g"


Cheers
David



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Cheers,
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