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MHPATH

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

mhpath - print full pathnames of MH messages and folders

SYNOPSIS

mhpath[+folder] [msgs][-help]

DESCRIPTION

Mhpath expands and sorts the message list `msgs' and writesthe full pathnames of the messages to the standard outputseparated by newlines.If no `msgs' are specified,mhpath outputs the folder pathname instead.If the only argument is `+', your MH Path is output;this can be useful is shell scripts.

Contrasted with other MH commands, a message argument to mhpathmay often be intended for writing.Because of this:

1) the name ``new'' has been added to mhpath's list ofreserved message names(the others are ``first'', ``last'', ``prev'',``next'', ``cur'', and ``all'').The new message is equivalent to the message after thelast message in a folder(and equivalent to 1 in a folder without messages).The ``new'' message may not be used as part of a message range.

2) Within a message list,the following designations may refer to messages that do not exist:a single numeric message name,the single message name ``cur'',and (obviously) the single message name ``new''.All other message designations must refer to at least one existing message.

3) An empty folder is not in itself an error.

Message numbers greater than the highest existing message in a folder aspart of a range designation are replaced with the next free message number.

Examples: The current folder foo contains messages 3 5 6.Cur is 4.

% mhpath/r/phyl/Mail/foo% mhpath all/r/phyl/Mail/foo/3/r/phyl/Mail/foo/5/r/phyl/Mail/foo/6% mhpath 2001/r/phyl/Mail/foo/7% mhpath 1-2001/r/phyl/Mail/foo/3/r/phyl/Mail/foo/5/r/phyl/Mail/foo/6% mhpath new/r/phyl/Mail/foo/7% mhpath last new/r/phyl/Mail/foo/6/r/phyl/Mail/foo/7% mhpath last-newbad message list ``last-new''.% mhpath cur/r/phyl/Mail/foo/4% mhpath 1-2no messages in range ``1-2''.% mhpath first:2/r/phyl/Mail/foo/3/r/phyl/Mail/foo/5% mhpath 1 2/r/phyl/Mail/foo/1/r/phyl/Mail/foo/2

MHpath is also useful in back-quoted operations:

% cd `mhpath +inbox`% echo `mhpath +`/r/phyl/Mail

^$HOME/.mh_profile~^The user profile^Path:~^To determine the user's MH directory^Current-Folder:~^To find the default current folderfolder(1)`+folder' defaults to the current folder`msgs' defaults to noneNoneLike all MH commands, mhpath expands and sorts [msgs].So don't expect

mv `mhpath 501 500`

to move 501 to 500.Quite the reverse. But

mv `mhpath 501` `mhpath 500`

will do the trick.

Out of range message 0 is treated far more severely than large out ofrange message numbers.

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