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Manual Reference Pages  - MBOXGREP (1)

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mboxgrep - displays email messages matching a pattern

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mboxgrep [OPTIONS] PATTERN [MAILBOX]

This manual page refers to mboxgrep version 0.7.9.

mboxgrep scans a MAILBOX and displays messages matching PATTERN.

If a mailbox name is ommited, or a single dash (-) is given instead, it reads from standard input. It can read mbox folders or output from another mboxgrep process from standard input.

mboxgrep understands POSIX regular expressions, as well as Perl compatible regular expressions (if enabled at compile time). MAILBOX can be either a:

o	mbox folder (either plain or compressed)
o	MH folder
o	Gnus nnmh or nnml folder
o	qmail-style maildir folder

-h, --help	Display a help screen and exit.
-V, --version	Display version and copyright information and exit.
-r, --recursive	Descend into directories recursively.
-E, --extended-regexp	PATTERN is an extended regular expression. This is default.
-G, --basic-regexp	PATTERN is a basic regular expression.
-P, --perl-regexp	PATTERN is a Perl regular expression. Works only if enabled at compile time.
-e, --regexp=PATTERN	Use PATTERN as a regular expression.
-i, --ignore-case	Ignore case distinctions.
-v, --invert-match	Select messages which don’t match PATTERN.
-H, --headers	Match PATTERN against message headers.
-B, --body	Match PATTERN against message body.
-l, --file-lock=METHOD	Select file locking METHOD. METHOD is ‘fcntl’, ‘flock’, or ‘none’.
-nl, --no-file-lock	Do not lock files. This option is meaningful only if a mbox folder (see below) is scanned.
-c, --count	Suppress normal output and print a count of matching messages.
-o, --output=FOLDER	Suppress normal output and write messages to destination folder FOLDER instead.
-p, --pipe=COMMAND	Pipe each found message to COMMAND
-d, --delete	Suppress normal output and delete selected messages instead. Use with caution.
-nd, --no-duplicates	Ignore duplicate messages.
-m, --mailbox-format=TYPE	Select input and output mailbox TYPE. TYPE can be either ‘mbox’ (default), ‘zmbox’ (meaning ‘gzip compressed mbox’), ‘bz2mbox’ (meaning ‘bzip2 compressed mbox’), ‘mh’, ‘nnml’, ‘nnmh’ or ‘maildir’.

o	Search $MAIL for messages from Dirty Harry:
mboxgrep ’^From:.*callahan@homicide\.SFPD\.gov’ $MAIL
o	Display all messages contained in folder ~/Mail/incoming, except those that appear to originate from AOL:

mboxgrep -v ’Received:.*aol\.com’ ~/Mail/incoming

Report them to address below.

Mboxgrep was alomost completely rewritten since version 0.5.3. Additionally, there was no stable 0.6.x branch between 0.5.3 and 0.7.0.

grep(1), regex(7), perlre(1), mbox(5), RFC 2822

Mboxgrep is dedicated in loving memory of Vicky, my cat who died of tumor on Sep 12, 2002.

You haven’t been long with us, but you gave us a lot of joy and all your big heart that stopped ticking too early. I will never forget you. Sleep well, little friend.

http://www.mboxgrep.org/

Daniel Spiljar <dspiljar@world.std.com>
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