At 16:32 2001-06-08 -0400, Evans, Tim wrote:
I want to extract the hostname from the subject line and save the message in
a folder named for the host:
Whem you want to extract part of something, you should consider checking
out the $MATCH construct. See the manpages.
:0:
* (^SUBJECT:.*)myspecificstringofcharacters.*
HOST=`/usr/bin/echo \"${SUBJ}\" | /usr/bin/awk '{print $NF}'`
$HOST
Why not use $MATCH? You toss the need to execute formail, a shell, echo,
and awk:
:0:
* ^Subject:.*myspecificstringofcharacters /\.*
$MATCH
Sweet and simple.
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