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MHPARAM

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: MH.6.8
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NAME

mhparam - print MH profile components

SYNOPSIS

mhparam[components][-all][-component] [-nocomponent][-help]

DESCRIPTION

Mhparam writes the value of the specified profile component tothe standard output separated by newlines. If the profile componentis not present, the default value (or nothing if there is no default)is printed.

If more than one component is specified in the `components' list, the component value ispreceded by the component name. If `-component' is specified, thecomponent name is displayed even when only one component is specified.If `-nocomponent' is specified, the component name is not displayedeven when more than one component is specified.

If `-all' is specified, all components if the MH profile aredisplayed and other arguments are ignored.

Examples:

% mhparam pathMail% mhparam mhlproc/usr/lib/mh/mhl% mhparam -component pathPath:       Mail% mhparam AliasFile rmmprocAliasFile:  aliasesrmmproc:    rmmproc% mhparam -nocomponent AliasFile rmmprocaliasesrmmproc

Mhparam is also useful in back-quoted operations:

% fgrep cornell.edu `mhpath +`/`mhparam aliasfile`

^$HOME/.mh_profile~^The user profilemh-profile(5)`-nocomponent' if only one component is specified`-component' if more than one component is specified`components' defaults to noneNone

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