From: Florian Wehner <florian@whnr.de>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 13:52:42 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: How to run shell commands in global-hooks
X-Git-Tag: 2019-10-25~494
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=34c036f06e4228cacf749c214a469398835b3397;p=neomutt

How to run shell commands in global-hooks

Addition is based on issue https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/1353
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diff --git a/doc/manual.xml.head b/doc/manual.xml.head
index 792158a4e..ee8e67981 100644
--- a/doc/manual.xml.head
+++ b/doc/manual.xml.head
@@ -12501,6 +12501,18 @@ set abort_noattach_regex = "\\&lt;attach(|ed|ments?)\\&gt;"
             </para>
           </listitem>
         </itemizedlist>
+        <para>
+          The commands are NeoMutt commands. If you want to run an external
+          shell command, you need to run them like this:
+        </para>
+<screen>
+startup-hook 'echo `action.sh ARGS`'
+</screen>
+        <para>
+          The single quotes prevent the
+          backticks from being expanded. The <literal>echo</literal> command
+          prevents and empty command error.
+        </para>
 
         <sect3 id="timeout-hook-intro">
           <title>Timeout Hook</title>