metamail - how to call it automatically to save the file

[pho01]

does anybody out there have good experience with metamail?

How do i decode an encoded email attachment without having to enter the name of the file but instead of take the default name or a specify name?

For example:
To write the attachment to a file, this is the syntax:
metamail -w < efile

then metamail will ask to enter the name for the attachment.

Since i have this command in a shell script, i try to ignore the question by using the command:

metamail -w < efile > localfile
this didnot work

or just
metamail < efile > localfile
still did not work

any idea?

 

[PHV]

Have you tried something like this ?
metamail -w localfile < efile

Hope This Helps, PH.
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