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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 http://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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Published in Issue 172 of Linux Gazette, March 2010

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