Thank you James for your response. Sorry for the incomplete posting. I tried all your commands. They worked! Thanks again. Vidol ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Wilkinson" <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:11 PM Subject: Re: Spitting a Mailbox into separate files with formail > Vidol Loeung wrote: > > A long time ago, I used to be able to split a mailbox into separate text > > files with this command: > > > > cat $MAIL | formail -ds 'sh -c cat > msg.$FILENO' > > > > Now, when I tried it again on Fedora, it did not work. > > > > Could you please help me? > > May I suggest that you're more likely to get responses if you give us a > bit more detail than "it didn't work"? In this case, if you had included > the error messages > /bin/sh: sh -c cat > msg.$FILENO: No such file or directory > /bin/sh: sh -c cat > msg.$FILENO: No such file or directory > (etc.) > you're more likely to get someone telling you that means formail is > looking for a file named "sh -c cat > msg.$FILENO", not trying to pass > the options "-c cat > msg.$FILENO" to the command "sh". > > This isn't surprising: man formail says: > -s has to be the last option specified, the first argument following > it is expected to be the name of a program, any other arguments will > be passed along to it. > And the program you're trying to use is called sh. > > So > cat $MAIL | formail -ds sh -c 'cat > msg.$FILENO' > should do what you want. > > Incidentally, > < $MAIL formail -ds sh -c 'cat > msg.$FILENO' > or > formail -ds sh -c 'cat > msg.$FILENO' < $MAIL > is considered better style, since it saves on a "cat" process. Google > UUOC for more details. > > Hope this helps, > > James. > > -- > E-mail address: james | It's fair enough for a surgeon to refuse to operate on > @westexe.demon.co.uk | someone who won't stop smoking: you've got to give the > | anaesthetist a chance to get in there. > | -- "Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation", BBC Radio 4 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
