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From: dalgic@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Ismail Dalgic)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: 'from' alias in csh
Message-ID: <1990Jan7.000740.21661@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 7 Jan 90 00:07:40 GMT
References: <1990Jan6.183428.11336@csusac.csus.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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Since people started sending millions of different versions of "from",
let me send my own version that I have been using for some time.  This
one uses "mail" to do most of the job.  It prints the sender, the
number of lines/characters in the message, and the subject, all in one
line.  You can simply add $4,$5,$6 and $7 in the print list of awk to
print the date as well.  Here it is:

alias from 'echo "q" | mail | awk \' {if (NF == 9) print $3,$8,$9}\''

BTW, is alt.sources really the appropriate place to send such
one-liners?

Have Fun,
--Ismail