Re: question on executing executable in mailcap
Dave Ewart <[email protected]>
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On Sunday, 16.08.2026 at 10:08 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via Mutt-users wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following in my $HOME/.mailcap file:
>
> application/pdf; mutt_bgrun "${PDFVIEWER:-zathura}" %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.pdf; description="PDF Document"
>
> So this uses mutt_bgrun which is a shell script in my $HOME/bin
>
> However, when I try to see the attachment I get:
>
> sh: line 1: mutt_bgrun: command not found
> Press any key to continue...
>
> What am I doing incorrectly?
>
> How do I get the $HOME/bin file to be included?
Does it work if you give the full path, e.g. /home/username/bin/mutt_bgrun ?
Dave.
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