For some reason were the single quotes at the AWK command made special. The strange single quote breaks copy-and-paste the "filtered postsuper delete example".
Having regular single quotes makes the example usable again. --- man/man1/postsuper.1 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/man1/postsuper.1 b/man/man1/postsuper.1 index 9b292a9..bfe8dd1 100644 --- a/man/man1/postsuper.1 +++ b/man/man1/postsuper.1 @@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ queue IDs from standard input. For example, to delete all mail with exactly one recipient \fbu...@example.com\fR: .sp .nf -mailq | tail +2 | grep -v '^ *(' | awk \'BEGIN { RS = "" } +mailq | tail +2 | grep -v '^ *(' | awk 'BEGIN { RS = "" } # $7=sender, $8=recipient1, $9=recipient2 { if ($8 == "u...@example.com" && $9 == "") print $1 } -\' | tr -d '*!' | postsuper -d - + ' | tr -d '*!' | postsuper -d - .fi .sp Specify "\fB-d ALL\fR" to remove all messages; for example, specify -- 2.8.0.rc3