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Subject: Re: pipe filter output to file?
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>>>>> Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net> writes:

  > I would like to grep a specific line out of a mail or news message
  > and append it to a file.  The messages are essentially boilerplate
  > containing a single action line that I need to collect and feed to
  > a shell script.

| grep foo >> /tmp/bar RET

The above, when typed from the summary buffer, should append all lines
matching foo to the file /tmp/bar.

kai
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