If you use tcsh, this handy alias will display a one line message at
your prompt telling you if and at what time new mail has arrived, or will
display nothing if there has been no new mail.
In .cshrc, add the line:
alias precmd 'finger your_username | grep "New mail" | grep -v "no"'
Replace your_username with your real username, login again, and you're set.
I hope that this is useful for some people.
-Josh
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Joshua Kramer
Philadelphia, PA USA
On 29 Apr 1996, Wes Hardaker wrote:
tom(_at_)Mail(_dot_)Coast(_dot_)NET (Engineer on Caffeine) writes (in part):
Is there a script or
another method that can notify me of new mail, without printing a large
amount of stuff to the screen?