Re: how do I do this is shell script?

[Karsten M. Self]

on Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:15:32PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
>       I am writing some shell script (bash) to read from Addresses.pdb
> and convert it to mutt address using lbdbq.  I encounter a problem where
> some ppl have two or even 3 emails which I have to come out with a
> unique alias in mutt.  How do I put a number in the alias name
> automatically to make it unique.  So far I have
> 
> MUTT_ADDRESSES=~/.mutt/mutt.addresses
> ADDRESSES_PDB=~/AddressDB.pdb
> 
> lbdbq | sed '1 d' |
> sed 's/^\([EMAIL PROTECTED])\t\([A-Za-z0-9_-.]*\)[ ]*\([A-Za-z0-9_-. 
> ]*\)\t(Palm)/alias \2 "\2 \3" <\1>/' |
> sort > $MUTT_ADDRESSES
       ^
       -u

Peace.

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