Re: Trying to Make an Alias Execute a Perl Script

2011-02-09 Thread peter
At 02:42 PM 2/5/2011, pe...@vfemail.net wrote: * * * I've tried this entry in my /etc/mail/aliases file, but it returns an empty e-mail messages: extract: | perl -wne 'while(/[\S\.]+@[\S\.]+\w+/g){print $\n}' | mail user [and this one]: extract: | cat

Trying to Make an Alias Execute a Perl Script

2011-02-05 Thread peter
I have a couple of entries in my /etc/mail/aliases that manipulate the contents of an e-mail message. For example, file: | cat /home/user/file.incoming receives an e-mail message and writes it to the hard drive. Another example: format: | sed 's/^.$/~~/g' | sed 's/^$/~~/g' | tr