[conspire] mailgrep

[Tony Godshall]

see also
https://packages.debian.org/unstable/grepmail


On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 2:24 AM Michael Paoli <
Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> mailgrep - a teensy weensy tiny program that does something
> rather useful ... that I should've coded up years ago (maybe
> I did ... somewhere ... but didn't keep it?  Or just did
> it as a one-off for some particular set of matching I was
> looking for - I'm sure I've done that more than once).
>
> Thus far very bare-bones basic.
>
> The issue/challenge/problem it solves.
>
> Let's say you have a file in mbox format.
> Let's say rather than line-oriented grep, you want to extract all the
> mail messages that match some particular pattern.
>
> Well, mailgrep will do that.  Just bare bones functionality thus far.
> It uses perl regular expressions (which are an extension of BRE & ERE).
> Basic usage:
> mailgrep RE [file ...]
> And, where, can you find the program?
> At least presently here:
> https://www.balug.org/~sflug/bin/mailgrep
>
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