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mbox selective deletion
Sam Bisbee [sbisbee at computervip.com]
Fri, 5 Feb 2010 19:28:52 -0500
Hey gang,
Here's the deal: I'm trying to delete a message from an mbox with Bash. I have the message number that I got by filtering with `frm` (the message is identified by a header that holds a unique SHA crypt). You've problem guessed by now, but mailutils is fair game.
I don't want to convert from mbox to maildir in /tmp on each run, because it's reasonable that the script would be run every minute. Also, I don't want to put users through that pain with a large mbox.
Also, I really don't want to write a "delete by message number" program in C using the libmailutils program, but I will resort to it if needed.
I saw https://www.argon.org/~roderick/mbox-purge.html, but would like to have "common" packages as dependencies only.
Is there some arg that I missed in `mail`? Should I just try and roll mbox-purge in? All ideas, tricks and release management included, are welcome.
Cheers,
-- Sam Bisbee
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Vocabulary lookup from the command line?
René Pfeiffer [lynx at luchs.at]
Thu, 4 Feb 2010 01:08:04 +0100
Hello, TAG!
I am trying to brush up my French - again. So I bought some comics in French and I try to read them. Does anyone know of a command line tool or even a "vocabulary shell" that allows me to quickly look up words, prreferrably French words with Germen or English translations?
I can always hack a Perl script that queries dict.leo.org or similar services, but a simple lookup tool should be around already.
Salut, René.
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