* Christian Ebert on Friday, December 25, 2009 at 11:45:34 +0000 > * Wu, Yue on Friday, December 25, 2009 at 13:50:41 +0800 >> Now I've changed to mbox from maildir, when with maildir, I use a sh script >> to >> count the number of mails in directory new/ of each of my mails/ >> sub-directory, >> but now I don't know how to achieve it with mbox, any hint will be >> appreciated. > > egrep '^From [-a-za-z0-9....@[a-za-z0-9]+\.[a-za-z0-9]+ [A-Z][a-z]{2} > [A-Z][a-z]{2} [ 1-3][0-9] [0-2][0-9]:[0-5][0-9]:[0-5][0-9] [0-9]{4}$' mbox | > wc -l
oops, should be: egrep '^From [-a-za-z0-9....@[-a-za-z0-9]+\.[a-za-z0-9]+ [A-Z][a-z]{2} [A-Z][a-z]{2} [ 1-3][0-9] [0-2][0-9]:[0-5][0-9]:[0-5][0-9] [0-9]{4}$' mbox | wc -l But you might be fine with: grep '^From ' mbox | wc -l c -- \black\trash movie _C O W B O Y_ _C A N O E_ _C O M A_ Ein deutscher Western/A German Western --->> http://www.blacktrash.org/underdogma/ccc.php