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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Path: sparky!uunet!netnews!bandy
- From: bandy@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Mike Bandy)
- Subject: Re: How to interpret when the end of piece of mail is reached?
- Message-ID: <BxvErJ.559@netnews.jhuapl.edu>
- Keywords: mail, sh, script
- Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
- References: <1992Nov8.205909.21877@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:18:54 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- micah@hardy.u.washington.edu (Micah Anderson) writes:
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- >How can I tell where one message ends in mail and where one begins?
- >There isn't any obvious delimeter when I cat my mailbox...
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- Instead of using cat or more on your mailbox use mail:
- mail -f mbox
- Then it shows you the message headers and allows deletions, replies, etc.
-
- BTW, seeing the other responses to the request (Where the hell did that
- "Henry the Eighth" junk come from????), am I way out of line here by simply
- offering a simple suggestion? ;)
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- Mike Bandy
- bandy@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
- Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Lab
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