Re: grepmail and mutt
* Rainer Bendig <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [07-30-04 22:40]:
> i want to search my mboxes in the ~/Mail/archive folder via grepmail.
> on the shell i am doing "grepmail foo ./archive/* >./results" How can i
> tell mutt to do that for me, with prompting me for "foo" ?
use grepm (quoted below) and:
grepm -iRY ^Subject foo Mail/archive
will search ~/Mail/archive for "foo" w/o reguard to case and present the
results in mutt in an index view where you may
view/copy/respond/forward/...... When you close mutt, the results (temp
files) will be erased.
save to file grepm and make executable:
#!/bin/sh
# grepm - a wrapper for grepmail utilizing mutt
# grepm-0.6
# written 1998-11-xx by Moritz Barsnick <barsnick@xxxxxxx>
# updated 1998-12-22: added "-m" option for grepmail
# added "exit 1" to trap
# updated 1999-01-04: added check for empty "mailbox" (don't open mutt)
# added messages
# added umask (to keep others from reading your messages)
# updated 1999-01-19: added trap for SIGPIPE (any other suggestions?)
# updated 1999-07-05: added $TMPDIR; we're still subject to races ($TMPFILE
# might exist)
# updated 1999-11-29: have mutt open the temporary mailbox read-only -
# there's no use in editing it anyway
PROGNAME=`basename "$0"`
TMPDIR=${TMPDIR-/tmp}
umask 077
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
echo 1>&2 "Usage: ${PROGNAME} arguments"
exit 1
fi
TMPFILE="${TMPDIR}/grepmail-output.$$"
# I _would_ check this with "-e", but not all /bin/sh's understand it
# so this is just a kludge
if [ -f ${TMPFILE} -o -d ${TMPFILE} -o -w ${TMPFILE} ]; then
echo 1>&2 "Temporary file ${TMPFILE} exists for some reason! Aborting."
exit 1
fi
trap "rm -f ${TMPFILE}; exit 1" 1 2 3 13 15
grepmail -m "$@" > "${TMPFILE}"
if [ `wc -c "${TMPFILE}" | awk '{print $1}'` -gt 0 ]; then
echo 1>&2 "Calling mutt on results file (${TMPFILE})."
mutt -R -f "${TMPFILE}"
else
echo 1>&2 "No matches."
fi
rm -f "${TMPFILE}" && echo 1>&2 "Deleted results file (${TMPFILE})."
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