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Re: Extracting a word from the Subject Line

1996-09-10 18:11:14
Virtual Planet wrote the following:

Subject:  Much Big News #1234xxx

But how do you get that last word (which happens to be
a password) into a variable using sed???  What I need
is to be able to do something like

KEYWORD = `formail -x Subject|sed '???'`

...so that $KEYWORD will equal "#1234xxx" or better yet,
$KEYWORD will equal "1234xxx" (without the "#" trigger)

KEYWORD=`formail -x Subject | cut -f2 -d#`

Have fun 8)

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