On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:09:30AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> At 1146586566 past the epoch, David Purton wrote:
> > How can I escape a string literal easily for use as a regex with grep?
>
> If you feed it through perl, you can enclose the suspect string with \Q
> and \E. Here's an excerpt from a perl script which I generate my
> procmail recipes with:
>
> $reexp = $dict{$key};
> print ":0\n*^TO\Q$reexp\E\n\$MAILDIR/$key/\n\n";
>
> You could try something like
>
> TMPSUBJECT=`formail -zxSubject:`
> SUBJECT=`perl -e 'print "\Q$TMPSUBJECT\E";'`
>
I ended up using fgrep, which if I had read the grep manual I would have
found does what I want (Blush).
This works well:
# subject kill file
SUBJECT=`formail -zxSubject:`
:0:
* ? fgrep -qx "$SUBJECT" $HOME/.mutt.killfile
caughtspam
cheers
dc
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