[Nmh-workers] Getting a list of message numbers into a script

Is there a good way to get a list of message numbers into a bash script,
without the prefixes normally attached by mhpath and mark. What I've been
doing is something ugly like:


        $(mhpath first:3 17 last:4| sed -e "s@.*/@@" -e "s@\n@@"

Is there a cleaner way?

    Norman Shapiro

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