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1. NAME▲
run-mailcap, view, see, edit, compose, print - execute programs via entries in the mailcapfile
2. SYNOPSIS ▲
run-mailcap --action=ACTION [--option[=value]] [MIME-TYPE:[ENCODING:]]FILE [...] The
R see ,
R edit ,
compose and
print versions are just aliases that default to the view, edit, compose, and print actions (respectively).
3. DESCRIPTION ▲
run-mailcap (or any of its aliases) will use the given action to process each mime-type/file in turn. Each file is specified as its mime-type, its encoding (e.g. compression), and filename together, separated by colons. If the mime-type is omitted, an attempt to determine the type is made by trying to match the file's extension with those in the mime.typesfiles. If the encoding is omitted, it will also be determined from the file's extensions. Currently supported encodings are
gzip (.gz),
bzip (.bz),
bzip2 (.bz2), and
compress (.Z). A filename of "-" can be used to mean "standard input", but then a mime-type
must be specified. Both the user's files (~/.mailcap; ~/.mime.types) and the system files (/etc/mailcap; /etc/mime.types) are searched in turn for information.
3.1. EXAMPLES ▲
see picture.jpg print output.ps.gz compose text/html:index.htm extract-mail-attachment msg.txt | see image/tiff:gzip:-
3.2. OPTIONS ▲
All options are in the form --<opt>=<value>.
- --action=<action>
Performs the specified action on the files. Valid actions are view , cat (like view but never paged) , compose , composetyped , editand print . If no action is specified, the action will be determined by how the program was called. - --debug
Turns on extra information to find out what is happening. - --nopager
Ignores any "copiousoutput" directive and sends output to STDOUT. - --norun
Displays the found command without actually executing it.
4. SEE ALSO ▲
R update-mime
5. AUTHOR ▲
run-mailcap (and its aliases) was written by Brian White <>.
6. COPYRIGHT ▲
run-mailcap (and its aliases) is in the public domain (the only true "free").
