Hello Lars,
"LH" == Lars Hecking <lhecking(_at_)nmrc(_dot_)ucc(_dot_)ie> writes:
LH> Ralph SOBEK writes:
Procmail has the number of lines of a piece of mail internally
since there are the operators '<' and '>', right? Is it possible to
recover this number of lines, or size, in a variable? I would like to
recover this in a variable within procmail.
LH> This is the first, and so far last :), scoring recipe I wrote
LH> :0BH
LH> * 1^1 ^.*$
LH> { }
LH> LINES=$=
LH> The condition line adds 1 (one) to the score for every line in header and
LH> body. $= contains the score of the last recipe. man procmailsc for details.
Thanks a lot! Looks okay. But to the Procmail Guru's, how costly is
it to run this scoring recipe? It looks expensive to me!! Maybe less
expensive than piping the message to `wc -l', but still expensive.
What do you folks say?
Cheers from southern France,
--Ralph
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