On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:44:30AM -0500 or thereabouts, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:40:31AM -0500, S.D.A. wrote:
> | Dman -- Is there a way to do this with all the que'ed messages at once?
> |
> | I just looked and I have almost 50 messages in the mailq. Very time
> | consuming to do each one by one.
>
> Something similar to :
>
> exim -Mrm `mailq | grep '^[^- ]' | cut -d ' ' -f 1`
>
> BEWARE - I have not tested this on a system with exim because the exim
> system has no mail on its queue. You may need (or want) to adjust the
> patterns for your system. (I did force a message to get stuck on a
> postfix system so I would have something listed in 'mailq')
>
> Tools like grep, cut, sed, and awk (as well as the shell itself) are
> essential for a unix/linux administrator. With a working knowledge of
> those tools you can easily automate many tasks, with a solution
> talilored to your needs, using the information already available.
I agree, and I'm intent on learning those tools. Thanks to you, and also
Mark McRitchie, who helped me offlist with a sed script. I need to learn
both sed and grep. Regular expressions should be fun to learn.
There certainly is some good talent on this list. :)
TGIF!
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Steve
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