Re: [Nmh-workers] Getting a list of message numbers into a script

[Bill Wohler]

David Levine <address@hidden> writes:

> Norm wrote:
>
>> Is there a good way to get a list of message numbers into a bash script,
>> without the prefixes normally attached by mhpath and mark. What I've been
>> doing is something ugly like:
>> 
>> 
>>      $(mhpath first:3 17 last:4| sed -e "address@hidden/@@" -e 
>> "address@hidden@@"
>> 
>> Is there a cleaner way?
>
> Yes, use pick:
>
>     $(pick first:3 17 last:4)
>
> David

Or scan:

    $ scan -format '%(msg)' +done first:3 17 last:4
    1
    2
    3
    17
    4482
    4483
    4484
    4485

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