on Tue, Mar 26, 2002, Rory Campbell-Lange ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is really a two part message. The first part is about removing many > messages from Exim. How does one do that easily, if one has to have > the precise id for each? > > Secondly, I'd like to make something like the line below work in bash. > Exim complains in this case of not finding a message with id "-". > > cat /tmp/e | exim -Mrm - > > I solved my problem cludgily by making an output file of exim -bp and > then vimming it so that it contained a set of "exim -Mrf <id> lines. I > then sourced the file. > > There must be a more elegant solution without using perl or python.
...or awk?
I run the following to reject my long-time frozen messages:
$ exim -Mg $( mailq | grep 'frozen' | awk '{print $3}' )
Peace.
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What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.
http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html
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