[wellylug] Parsing Mail log files

[andrej at paradise.net.nz]

Quoting Jamie Dobbs <jamie.dobbs at orcon.net.nz>:



> I would also like to be able to get the total bytes/kbytes of the
> messages
> received for the day and although I can see how it should be done
> logically I do not know how to translate this into a command for a
> shell
> script like the above. Logic tells me that we want the last "word" of
> the
> line starting with the word "Folder:" and keep a running total of this.
> Can anyone advise how I can do this?

grep Folder ~/Maildir/log* | awk '{sum+=$NF} END{print sum}'

HIH



> Cheers
> 
> Jamie
> 
Cheers,
Andrej