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From: jdpeek@RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek)
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Subject: Re: Showing the first message in a sequence
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Date: 9 May 89 16:40:44 GMT
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In article <306@odi.UUCP> (Benson Margulies) writes:
>I wanted a way to show the first unseen message in a folder.

You can do it with the shell.  Here's a simple little Bourne-shell script
(call it "fu") that shows the first unseen message.
You could make it into a c-shell alias, if you want:


#! /bin/sh
# Use show(1) on first message in "unseen" sequence.  This is an ugly hack.
# Runs mhpath(1) to get full pathnames of all unseen messages; strips off
# everything except the message number from the first pathname.
show `mhpath unseen | sed -n '1s@.*/@@p'`


You could be more elegant.  And there's gotta be a better way.  Ideas, anybody?

--Jerry Peek; Syracuse University Academic Computing Services; Syracuse, NY
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