linux man page for getfilename

getfilename(1)                                                General Commands Manual                                               getfilename(1)

NAME
       getfilename - Ask the user to name a file in a given format

SYNOPSIS
       getfilename  format-name file-name

DESCRIPTION
       The getfilename program will ask the user for the name of a file in the specified format, and will copy that file to the file-name given as
       the second argument.

       If this doesn't sound very useful by itself, you're right.  However, this turns out to be all you need in order to add  some  useful  func-
       tionality to mailcap-oriented programs such as mailto(1).  For example, the following line in a mailcap file allows mailto to help the user
       include PostScript in outgoing mail:

       application/postscript ; lpr -Pipa %s ; description="Include a Postscript File";compose="getfilename Postscript %s"

SEE ALSO
       mailto(1), metamail(1)

BUGS
       This is such a tiny program it might actually be bug-free, but I wouldn't bet on it.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 1991 Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore)

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       WARRANTIES.

AUTHOR
       Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Bellcore

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