Re: [Nmh-workers] Maybe time for a new release?

[norm]

>Norm wrote:
>
>> I want to output to stdout all the lines of that part that contain the
>> string "family". What command go I feed into 'grep family"?
>
>Well, it depends whether you want to modify the message on disk or not.
>
>If you do want to modify the message permanently:
>
>$ mhfixmsg $ grep family `mhpath cur`
>
>Some of us run mhfixmsg on our messages as we inc them, so we can then use
>grep, etc., directly.
>
>If you don't want to modify the message:
>
>$ mhfixmsg -outfile - | grep family
>
>-outfile can be abbreviated in usual MH fashion.

That works for me. Thank you.

>Those commands will output all the lines, in all parts, of the message. You
>asked "of that part". To just grep one or more specific parts, you could use
>mhstore, but that has nothing to do with (and precedes) mhfixmsg.
>
>> Suppose that I know that the current message in the current folder has a
>> part which is either utf-8 or a quotedPrintable and that
>
>It doesn't matter whether you know that the message has UTF-8 content, or
>quotedPrintable or base64 encoding. mhfixmsg won't decode or change the
>character set if it doesn't have to.
>
>And it's safe to run mhfixmsg multiple times on a message.

Much of that was not clear to me from the man page. But that may say more
about me than about the man page.

    Norman Shapiro