[neomutt-users] command from cli

Inrin nmutt at jikken.de
Sat Sep 17 15:06:54 CEST 2022


On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 09:48:59PM +0200, Peter Szigetvari wrote:
>Hello!
Hello Peter,

>I duckduckgoed this in vain:
>
>I'd like to execute a command from the command line, e.g., open a 
>mailbox then limit it to unread messages only.  I tried all of the 
>following in vain:
>
>neomutt -e "limit ~N" -f mybox
>neomutt -e "<limit> ~N" -f mybox
>neomutt -e "l ~N" -f mybox
>neomutt -e "l~N" -f mybox
>
>All of these, neomutt claims, are "unknown commands".
I had been successful using the "push" function:
	neomutt -e 'push "<limit> ~N\n"'

It takes a single string as argument, so you need the quotes.

Greetings
Inrin


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