Riley Williams wrote:

> Hi Bob.
>
>  > Ya need a recieve_mail script. It can be as simple as this...
>
>  > #!/bin/sh
>  > while read stuff
>  >   do echo $stuff >>/somedirectory/$1
>  > done
>
> The above won't quite do what you wanted, since it will replace
> each white space sequence on any line with a single space. Try
> it with the following input sequence:
>
>  Q> echo "       Testing     .     Testing      ..." | test
>
> Here's one that avoids that and other similar problems:
>
>  Q> #!/bin/sh
>  Q> cat >> /somedirectory/$1
>

Thanks Riley, I was looking for an example of how easy it was get started, I
confess I didn't look too hard. ;-)

--
Later...
Bob

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