[Ifile-discuss] Re: Maildir format

[clemens fischer]

"Karl Vogel" <address@hidden>:

>       #!/bin/perl
>       # update-header -- read file and msg type, add ifile header.
>
>       while (<>)
>       {
>           chomp;
>           ($file, $type) = split;
>
>           # store entire message
>           open (F, "< $file") || die "can't read $file";
>           $_ = do { local $/; <F> };
>           close (F);
>
>           # find end of header
>           $nl = index ($_, "\n\n");
>           die "no blank line" if $nl < 0;

>    >> me% ifile -c -q ??? | update-header

AFAIK "ifile -c" doesn't print the entire message, only the
classifications itself.  thus your perl script will only get to see
categories.  you might want to show the ifile options and the shell
comand line this script is supposed to handle.

also, the script still has no locking against multiple invocations on
the same message.  i think avoiding in-situ message changes will make
things much easier.

  clemens