From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23792 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Graham Todd Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Pipe multiple articles through a shell filter Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 19:13:46 GMT Organization: SunSITE Denmark (sunsite.auc.dk) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161462 3961 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:51:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:51:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA27275 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 17:01:25 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAB27319; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 14:18:42 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 04 Jul 1999 14:17:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA25102 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 14:16:45 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (sunsite.auc.dk [130.225.51.30]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA26191 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:13:50 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 24882 invoked by uid 509); 4 Jul 1999 19:13:48 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070084 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.84) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.172.12.232 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@sunsite.auc.dk Original-X-Trace: sunsite.auc.dk 931115626 206.172.12.232 (Sun, 04 Jul 1999 21:13:46 MET DST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 21:13:46 MET DST Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23792 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23792 I believe I posted this to the wrong newsgroup previously. Is there a way or could a way be developped to run shell commands on a selected group of articles? Currently (I think) the filter operates on one article at a time. If you select a group of articles and press "|" Gnus will ask for a shell command to run on each article in sequence. Running a shell command on all selected articles at once could be used (amont other things) to produce a quick and dirty threaded/htmlized archive of selected articles in a mailbox using: mhonarc -add -outdir ~/public_html/maillist/ Of course with procmail and friends this could all be automated, but quickly and interactively creating a small mail archive page this way using the fantastic sorting, scoring, and marking tools available in Gnus and "Pipe Through a Filter" would be a cool feature. Of course the feature may exist already and I just haven't found it. Regards, -- Graham Todd