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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Hi Thomas,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Thanks for your reply, I’ll try generating query files with all the variables already substituted and then executing the contents of these files instead and see how I go.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I admit I’m a bit surprised that this isn’t supported (you can do it in perl for example) – it seems like a fairly obvious use case if you’re going to bother having a CLI at all, how are you going to automate properly without variables? For example dates (as per my example) but also getting usernames from the shell, new queues / clients etc as you create them. Anyway, just my thoughts. Also not having the ability to export the results to email as an attachment</span> (<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I worked around this by mutt), or to generate CSV format instead of TSV .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Do ideas for new features get submitted to the bugs list or is there somewhere else they should go?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Chris Herrmann<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Far Edge Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>p. 02 84251400<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>m. 0403 393309<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><a href="http://www.faredge.com.au"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.faredge.com.au</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><snip><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>You don't. bin/rt doesn't do variable substitution. If you need to use environment variables then you need to do it without dropping into bin/rt's shell.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Thomas<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal></snip><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>