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MBOXGREP(1) General Commands Manual MBOXGREP(1) NAME mboxgrep - displays email messages matching a pattern SYNOPSIS mboxgrep [OPTIONS] PATTERN [MAILBOX] DESCRIPTION This manual page refers to mboxgrep version 0.7.13. mboxgrep scans a MAILBOX and displays messages matching PATTERN. If a mailbox name is ommited, or a single dash (-) is given instead, it reads from standard input. It can read mbox folders or output from an- other mboxgrep process from standard input. mboxgrep understands POSIX regular expressions, as well as Perl compat- ible regular expressions (if enabled at compile time). MAILBOX can be either a: • mbox folder (either plain or compressed) • MH folder • Gnus nnmh or nnml folder • qmail-style maildir folder OPTIONS -h, --help Display a help screen and exit. -V, --version Display version and copyright information and exit. -r, --recursive Descend into directories recursively. -E, --extended-regexp PATTERN is an extended regular expression. This is default. -G, --basic-regexp PATTERN is a basic regular expression. -P, --perl-regexp PATTERN is a Perl regular expression. Works only if enabled at compile time. -e, --regexp=PATTERN Use PATTERN as a regular expression. -i, --ignore-case Ignore case distinctions. -v, --invert-match Select messages which don't match PATTERN. -H, --headers Match PATTERN against message headers. -B, --body Match PATTERN against message body. -l, --file-lock=METHOD Select file locking METHOD. METHOD is `fcntl', `flock', or `none'. -nl, --no-file-lock Do not lock files. This option is meaningful only if a mbox folder (see below) is scanned. -c, --count Suppress normal output and print a count of matching messages. -o, --output=MAILBOX Suppress normal output and write messages to destination MAILBOX instead. -p, --pipe=COMMAND Pipe each found message to COMMAND -d, --delete Suppress normal output and delete selected messages instead. Use with caution. -nd, --no-duplicates Ignore duplicate messages. -m, --mailbox-format=TYPE Select input and output mailbox TYPE. TYPE can be either `mbox' (default), `zmbox' (gzip compressed mbox), `bz2mbox' (bzip2 com- pressed mbox), `mh', `nnml', `nnmh' or `maildir'. -s, --no-messages Suppress most error messages. --debug Print messages useful for debugging. EXAMPLES • Search $MAIL for messages from Dirty Harry: mboxgrep '^From:.*callahan@sanfranciscopolice\.org' $MAIL • Re-mail to George messages that mention his name: mboxgrep --pipe="/usr/lib/sendmail george" --ignore-case george ~/Mail/* • Display all messages contained in folder ~/Mail/incoming, except those that appear to originate from AOL: mboxgrep -v 'Received:.*aol\.com' ~/Mail/incoming • Do a case-insensitive scan of ~/Mail/incoming for messages with subject ``Weekly News'' and write them to folder ~/Mail/archive: mboxgrep -o ~/Mail/archive -H -i '^Subject: Weekly News' ~/Mail/incom- ing • Count all messages stored in folder spam, ignoring duplicates: mboxgrep -nd -c . spam BUGS Report them to address below. SEE ALSO grep(1), regex(7), perlre(1), mbox(5), RFC 2822, RFC 4155 DEDICATION Mboxgrep is dedicated in loving memory of Vicky, my cat who died of tu- mor on Sep 12, 2002. You haven't been long with us, but you gave us a lot of joy and all your big heart that stopped ticking too early. I will never forget you. Sleep well, little friend. HOMEPAGE https://www.mboxgrep.org/ GIT https://git.datatipp.se/dspiljar/mboxgrep https://github.com/dspiljar/mboxgrep AUTHOR Daniel Spiljar <dspiljar@datatipp.se> 23 September 2024 MBOXGREP(1)
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