Re: command-line biff?
on Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:30:29PM -0800, Vineet Kumar insinuated:
> * Nori Heikkinen (nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu) [030222 14:47]:
> > does anyone know of a command-line version of some biff or buffy or
> > whatever (mail notification program)? i just wrote a little shell
> > script to do it, that uses the xbuffy boxfile, but i was wondering
> > if there were packages out there for that purpose.
> >
> > i want this because often i'm logged in from some place i can't
> > X-forward to, and i want to see how many new messages i have in
> > what mailbox without opening all of them up.
>
> Using mbox?
>
> man --pager='less -s +/MAIL' bash
>
> Using maildir? Then the script is pretty simple; just count the
> number of files in the 'new' subdirs.
this is what i'm using, and this is what my script does. i just
wanted to see if there was something else out there that does it.
never mind.
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