On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:37:01AM +0100, Jens Benecke wrote: > Hi, > > I want to create a script that greps for a specific mail header coming from > STDIN. "mailgrep" and "mboxgrep" don't work, they need files to work on, > but the mail comes via STDIN. > > So I need to write something like > > | condredirect [EMAIL PROTECTED] egrep "^X-Spam-Flag: YES" > > BUT where grep would "exit 1;" and not search any further when it encounters > the first empty line (the end of the mail headers)
So you're only filtering single emails, not whole mboxes, and you only want to grep the headers? Stick sed -n -e '1,/^$/p' in the pipe before the grep. That'll pass through everything up to the first empty line and then stop. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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