Path: usenet.cise.ufl.edu!newsfeeds.nerdc.ufl.edu!newsfeeds.nerdc.ufl.edu!news.magicnet.net!news.iag.net!nntp-out.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.neta.com!not-for-mail From: David Coppit Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: Announcing grepmail version 1.7 Followup-To: comp.lang.perl.misc Date: 23 Sep 1998 00:04:57 GMT Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 59 Approved: merlyn@stonehenge.com (comp.lang.perl.announce) Message-ID: <6u9dv9$n81$1@news.neta.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gadget.cscaper.com X-Trace: news.neta.com 906509097 23809 206.67.186.3 (23 Sep 1998 00:04:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@neta.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Sep 1998 00:04:57 GMT X-Disclaimer: The "Approved" header verifies header information for article transmission and does not imply approval of content. Xref: usenet.cise.ufl.edu comp.lang.perl.announce:138 comp.lang.perl.misc:37441 grepmail 1.7: A Perl script for searching email archives for patterns, in the spirit of grep. Outputs full email messages. This new version is faster and more robust. grepmail supports gzip'ed files, -i, and -v, and can be piped to. Please report any bugs, modifications, or suggestions. Available on CPAN at: $CPAN/authors/id/D/DC/DCOPPIT/grepmail-1.7.tar.gz (Goto http://www.perl.org/ if you don't know how to get to CPAN.) --------------------------------------- usage: grepmail [-vi] [-d "datespec"] -i Ignore case in the search expression -v Output emails that don't match the expression Date specifications must be of the form of: a date like "today", "1st thursday in June 1992", "05/10/93", "12:30 Dec 12th 1880", "8:00pm december tenth", OR "before", "after", or "since", followed by a date as defined above, OR "between and ", where is defined as above. You can also pipe to grepmail. --------------------------------------- Here are a few examples: Get all email that you mailed yesterday - grepmail -d "yesterday" . sent-mail Get all email that you mailed before the first thursday in June 1998 that pertains to research: - grepmail -d "before 1st thursday in June 1992" research sent-mail Get all email you received since 8/20/98 that wasn't about research, ignoring case: - grepmail -i -d "since 8/20/98" -v research saved-mail Get all email about research but not about software: - grepmail research saved-mail | grepmail -v software David _________________________________________________________________________ David Coppit - Graduate Student coppit@cs.virginia.edu The University of Virginia http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~dwc3q "For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me" - Winnie the Pooh