Hi Paul,
I thought I'd be able to compare the message number against the output
of "mark -list", but since sequences can be abbreviated with range
notation, that gets complicated quickly. For example, message 6 is in
the sequence todo, but it's hard to tell from this:
$ mark -list -sequence todo
todo: 1 3 5-8 13 16 46 49 52-53
This will expand the message numbers printed by mark(1) making a check
by something like ‘fgrep -qx 42’ trivial.
mark -list -seq public -seq private -seq notexist |
sed 's/.*: //' |
awk '{
for (n = 1; n <= NF; n++) {
c = split($n, w, /-/)
a = w[1]; b = c == 1 ? w[1] : w[2]
for (m = a; m <= b; m++) print m
}
}'
(My ~/bin/toseq happens to do roughly the opposite, compressing
sequential numbers into a range. :-)
--
Cheers, Ralph