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RUN-MAILCAP(1)               Run Mailcap Programs               RUN-MAILCAP(1)



 

NAME


       run-mailcap,  view,  see,  edit,  compose, print - execute programs via
       entries in the mailcap file

 

SYNOPSIS


       run-mailcap --action=ACTION [--debug] [MIME-TYPE:[ENCODING:]]FILE [...]

       The see, edit, compose and print versions are just aliases that default
       to the view, edit, compose, and print actions (respectively).


 

DESCRIPTION






       run-mailcap (or any of its aliases) will use the given action  to  pro-
       cess  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.types  files.   If the encoding is omitted, it will also be deter-
       mined 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.

 

   EXAMPLES


         see picture.jpg
         print output.ps.gz
         compose text/html:index.htm
         extract-mail-attachment msg.txt | see image/tiff:gzip:-

 

   OPTIONS


       All options are in the form --=.

       --action=
              Performs the specified action on the files.  Valid  actions  are
              view,  compose,  composetyped,  edit and 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.  Any
              value other than zero (0) will turn on debugging output.

 

SEE ALSO


       update-mime(8)

 

AUTHOR


       run-mailcap  (and   its   aliases)   was   written   by   Brian   White
       .

 

COPYRIGHT


       run-mailcap  (and  its  aliases) is in the public domain (the only true
       "free").



Debian Project                   1st Jan 2008                   RUN-MAILCAP(1)