on Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:27:15AM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On June 11, 2003 11:14 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:15:32PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I am writing some shell script (bash) to read from > > > Addresses.pdb and convert it to mutt address using lbdbq. I > > > encounter a problem where some ppl have two or even 3 emails > > > which I have to come out with a unique alias in mutt. How do I > > > put a number in the alias name automatically to make it unique. > > > So far I have > > > > > > MUTT_ADDRESSES=~/.mutt/mutt.addresses > > > ADDRESSES_PDB=~/AddressDB.pdb > > > > > > lbdbq | sed '1 d' | > > > sed > > > 's/^\([EMAIL PROTECTED])\t\([A-Za-z0-9_-.]*\)[ > > > ]*\([A-Za-z0-9_-. ]*\)\t(Palm)/alias \2 "\2 \3" <\1>/' | sort > > > > $MUTT_ADDRESSES > > > > ^ > > -u > > The email address are unique, but not the alias name. I need to > append a different number to each repeating alias name to make it > unique. for example, > > alias Joe "Joe Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > alias Joe "Joe Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > become > > alias Joe1 "Joe Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > alias Joe2 "Joe Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Explaining your problem clearly helps.
Using a hash (associative array) in awk or perl could get you past this.
You'd test whether or not the value of mail{'Joe'} was null and/or
equal to your current address value. If not, then create mail{'Joe2'}.
Syntax varies with implementation.
Peace.
--
Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
Moderator, Free Software Law Discussion mailing list:
http://lists.alt.org/mailman/listinfo/fsl-discuss/
pgp00000.pgp
Description: PGP signature
