Re: scan without changing folder?

[Paul Fox]

ken wrote:
 > >I have reason to want to do a scan listing of a folder from a cron job.
 > >
 > >Since "scan +folder" will switch to that folder, this means that the
 > >current folder might change whenever my cron job runs.
 > >
 > >Is there a way around this?
 > 
 >      env MHCONTEXT=/dev/null scan +foo
 > 
 > (I just tested that and it seems to work for me)

Ah, excellent.  Thanks.  So much better than I was imagining.  :-)

 > 
 > But it does suggest to me that we should have an equivalent to -nochangecur
 > for folders, like -nochangefolder

Hardly needed, if we add this to the man page.

paul
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