On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 03:57:13PM -0700, Michael Elkins wrote:
> 
> While this might look simple, it's more difficult to implement than you
> might think.  Why?  Becuse the regexp here is not just one regular

No, I know how difficult it is. ;)

> At any rate, your example above can be solved as follows:
>               #!/bin/sh
>               for i in ~/Mail/friends.*; do
>                       echo "folder-hook $i my_hdr From: <jsmith-`echo $i|sed 
>'s;^.*\.;;'`@friends.domain.org>";
>               done

Yeah, I do something roughly like that, now.  I've just always thought it'd be
more elegant and generically useful to have backrefs.  :)

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rjbs

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