I know there must a simple solution for this that
can be integrated into a .procmailrc script, but
whatever it is eludes me and I have wasted the last
12 hours hacking and scouring the Web to no avail.
We have a mail message containing the header
Subject: Much Big News #1234xxx
In a .procmailrc script, we have...
TOPIC = `formail -x Subject|sed 's/[ ][^ ]*$//'`
$TOPIC now equals "Much Big News" and we have stripped
off the "#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
Try this:
PASSWORD=`formail -zxSubject: | awk '{print $NF}'`
Using "awk", 'print $NF' will always print the last field.
To lose the '#', and if you guarantee that it will always be there, you
can do this:
PASSWORD=`formail -zxSubject: | awk -F\# '{print $2}'