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Re: Trouble with Cat

1996-05-03 01:21:23
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On Thu, 2 May 1996, David A. wrote:

my .procmailrc
VERBOSE=ON
LOGFILE=$HOME

1. $HOME is a directory, change this to $HOME/procmail.log (or whatever you 
want).
:0:
* ^TOprocmail
procmail
cat msg.* > procmail.all
del msg.*
                                     
2. Every recipe must have exactly _one_ action line. You try to execute 
three actions.
3. Why do you want to save the message in a separate file, append it to 
procmail.all and then delete the individual message? procmail can do this 
for you:

:0:
* ^TOprocmail
procmail/procmail.all

Some more general comments:

4. del is a DOS command. UNIX needs rm.
5. The cat and del/rm work (actually they don't work, but if you change
things to make them work :-) on files in your home directory, not on the
procmail directory. If you want to work on files in another directory, 
set MAILDIR in your .procmailrc file.
6. You want to append to a file, so you need `>>' instead of `>'. A 
single `>' will delete the file and write it from scratch.

I suggest you read the procmailrc and procmailex man pages. Type: 
`man procmailrc' (without the quotes) at the command line. You should 
probably check out whatever UNIX help that's available on your system.
(The `del' makes me believe you are new to UNIX.)

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