mboxgrep - displays email messages matching a pattern
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 omitted, 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:
- •
- mbox folder (either plain or compressed)
- •
- MH folder
- •
- Gnus nnmh or nnml folder
- •
- 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'.
- •
- Search $MAIL for messages from Dirty Harry:
mboxgrep '^From:.*callahan@homicide\.SFPD\.gov' $MAIL
- •
- 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 almost completely rewritten since version 0.5.3.
Additionally, there was no stable 0.6.x branch between 0.5.3 and 0.7.0.
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.
Daniel Spiljar <dspiljar@world.std.com>