script

[juankayce]

i need help writing a script
vi post
You Have (number) messages from:
(name)@(Address)

and if no mail it will say
Sorry?No mail!

please help
juan

 

[MikeLacey]

Hi Juan,

Have a look at the grep command, it allows you to look through text files and search for various things.

Also -- there's an option for the mail command that just checks to see it there's any mail. Mike
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"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us, after we are bald."

Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.

 

[nogs]

Hi Juan
This should do most of what you want;

grep "(name)@(Address)" post > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? != 0 ]
then
"You have mail"
else
echo "no mail found at ${DATE}"
fi