[Techtalk] email question

Laurel Fan laurel at sdf.lonestar.org
Thu Jan 23 13:34:07 EST 2003


On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:55:27PM -0500, Jennifer Davis wrote:
> I was wondering if there was a commandline utility out there that would
> display the headings for the most recent emails.

You could try something like:

grep -a 'From ' /var/mail/laurel | tail 

or 

egrep -a 'From:|Subject:' /var/mail/laurel | tail

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