[wellylug] Awk / mail processing

[Chris Harris]

I've done this with chains of grep in the past, eg:
cat mbox | grep -vi Content-Length: | grep -vi MIME-Version: | grep -vi
Content-Type: > new.mail.box

each time I have thought "I must write a little prog to do this for me when
I get 'time'" :-)


> From: Edouard Chalaron [mailto:e.chalaron at paradise.net.nz]
> I was wondering if someone here could indicate me how I could
> process a bunch
> of mail (got by fetchmail) to remove headers and attachements,
> keeping just
> the "from", "subject" "date" and text and save it into one txt file / mail
>
> I thought that (g)awk could be the solution, but any advice on
> this matter
> would be nice, since I know very little about (g)awk.
>
> Thanks
> Edouard


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