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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Mg (Mail grep)
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:54:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0f1484cf96c1a97c4423d30ca917475f@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <da559b1fa34b90d92605c884dd821039@9srv.net>

> A few days ago, someone in #plan9 asked how to search for all
> messages with a certain string in Acme Mail. The provided answer
> was "grep(1)", which has the advantage of being concise and
> maybe nominally correct, but the disadvantage of being totally
> useless as a practical answer.

just to add to that.  if Mail is not a requirement, ned has some
interesting possibilities

for messages with Mg in the "h" line, execute the h command
	g/Mg/h
same thing for matches in the whole message
	g%Mg%h

nupas ned allows you to search any file that upas/fs provides
for a message.  for example, if you want to print out all messages
that reference a given message
	25: p references
	d6dea0d153e3a5b9afac72c15318644e@coraid.com
	25: g#references#d6dea0d153e3a5b9afac72c15318644e@coraid.com#h
	 25       1208   9/04 10:23 quanstro@coraid.com          Re: sata
	 57       1706   9/04 10:01 example@coraid.com          Re: sata

countdown to requests for threading in 3..2..1..

- erik




  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-18 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-18 22:29 a
2008-11-18 22:54 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2008-11-19  5:16 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-11-19 12:01   ` a
2008-11-19  6:00 ` akumar

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