On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 02:41:21PM +0100, Magnus Bäck wrote: > On Friday, January 02, 2004 at 05:28 CET, > David Yitzchak Cohen <lists+mutt_users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I ilke this version of muttedit better, actually: > > #!/bin/sh > > > > file=$1 > > if egrep "^Subject:" $file | egrep -q "<eom>\$" ; then > > touch $file > > else > > vi $file > > fi > > Is there a reason not to use > > if egrep -q '^Subject: .*<eom>$' $file ; then Well, if you're stupid (like myself), there is. If you're smart enough to notice my extra step, there's no reason not to combine them into one ;-) > Am I missing some subtle point? The -q option seems to be specific to > GNU grep, by the way. Yeah, here's a more portable way to do it: if egrep -q '^Subject: .*<eom>$' $file >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then - Dave -- Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor? It's simple, Skyler. You've seen what food processors do to food, right? Please visit this link: http://rotter.net/israel
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