On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:33 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > David Scheidt schrieb: >> >> I don't know, b ut the archive at >> http://mail.sjgames.com/pipermail/gurpsnet-l/ >> goes back to 2003. > > Oh, yes - my reading skill is low :) > Thanx! > > Still, older archives may be "somewhere" ... > > >>> 2) >> >> It's only necessary to change the first line. >> I used the following bit of sed: >> sed 's/^From \(.*\) at \(.*\)/From \...@\2/' infile.txt > outfile.mbox >> >> and my version of mutt (actually, a whole range of versions on my >> isp's shell machines) read them just fine. > > You are right! > I had a mistake in my sed line - now i used: > > sed -i 's/^From \(.*\) at \(.*\) /From \...@\2 /g;s/^From: \(.*\) at \(.*\) > /From: \...@\2 /g' *.txt
Probably not a real problem, but a pattern that's anchored to the start of a line (with ^) can't match more than once, so you don't need the 'g' option (which means "replace every occurance on a line"). -- David Scheidt [email protected] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
