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List:       procmail
Subject:    Re: Cleaning up a message
From:       Stan Ryckman <stanr () sunspot ! tiac ! net>
Date:       2001-10-31 22:41:16
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At 02:43 AM 10/26/2001, Andrew Edelstein wrote:
[snip]
>Oy vey, that's heinous.
>
>:0fb
>* ^From:.*breakingnews@cnn\.com
>* ^Subject:.*Breaking News
>|grep '--'
>
>:0A:
>!pager@address

That's usually trouble because grep thinks that '--' is some sort of
attempt to specify an option.  Use
     egrep '[-]-'
or something similar to match two dashes.

And, as someone else pointed out, it only works if the message is
always confined to line(s) with "--" in it(them).

Cheers,
Stan

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