Hello searchers in Mutt, On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 07:12:32PM +0100, Gregor Zattler wrote: > mutt -f <(grepmail -h cco@ *) > > i see mutt reading messages from "/dev/fd/63", a few messages from > grepmaiol and then: > > the mutt index which first looks fine but when I hit <enter> to read a > message the pager was empty...
Oops. I get the same result. Thinking about it, this is not surprising. The process substitution construct creates a pipe to avoid temporary files. If you want to access a message listed in the index, you need random access to the mail box, which is something a pipe does not give you. So it's better to say something like eg, grepmail -hm cco@ * > /tmp/grpfldr ; mutt -f /tmp/grpfldr ; rm /tmp/grpfldr And this is just what grepm does. People not using mbox format will have to use mboxgrep (mentioned earlier in this thread). > ae <(ls) > emacs <(ls) > jed <(ls) Emacs cannot read from a pipe (at least not from the command line). By the way: The pro searcher will create an index (in the sense of a hash table) for his mail -- like real search engines and databases do. Now I remember a tool called ``Managing Gigabytes'' which is often used for searching in really big gobs of mail. You can find it there: http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/mg/ Cheers, Cristian -- }{ Cristian Pietsch }{ http://www.interling.de
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