On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 03:54:52PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Now, if this information were stored in a file, it would be simple to > > manipulate with regex's: > > > > sed 's/@/ -at- /' addressfile > > > > But I don't see an obvious way to get sed or awwk to take variable values > > as input. I can do the following: > > > > FROM=`formail -x"From:" < "$msg"` ; > > echo $FROM > tempfrom > > FROM=$(sed 's/@/ -at- /' tempfrom) > > > > but this strikes me as awkward. Is there a better way? > > You can use sed and friends in a shell pipe. So a typical invocation > would look something like > > FROM=`formail -x"From:" < "$msg" | sed -e' s/@/ -at- /g'` > > (Run formail, taking its input from the file named in $msg; then send > its output through sed, and take the result of that and assign it to > $FROM.)
wow, that's great, thdanks! matt > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
