Re: Extract last email from an email file (mbox format)

On 25/05/16 09:12, Xu Wang wrote:

Hi how can I efficiently extract the last email in a huge mbox email file?

Try this one:

###  Extract message number #7 from mail folder
awk 'NR==7 {print "From "$0}' RS='\nFrom '  theBigBox

--udi

Kind regards,

Xu
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