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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sort file data according to a custom list of string Post 303042940 by Neo on Monday 13th of January 2020 12:10:38 AM
Old 01-13-2020
Dear mohtashims,

[reply before original post edited]

With nearly 1000 posts on this site; you well know the culture here by this time.

You should post your code, what you have tried.

As you know, all of this kind of basic text processing is "possible" and there is no best way to do it and there is no "right or wrong" ways. What works for "person a" may not be the best solution for "person b".. and so forth.

As Yoda said in Star Wars, "There is no try".... "Only Do". (or something like that).

So, if you want to process some text, you should choose your tools of choice (based on your computing culture and environment) and you can then write your own code to process your text and post your code here, post your sample input, your sample output and any error messages, and they and only then, as for help based on your code, input, output and error messages (if any) along with the details of your operating system.
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9

mhmail

MHMAIL(1)							     [nmh-1.5]								 MHMAIL(1)

NAME

       mhmail - send or read mail

SYNOPSIS

       mhmail [addrs ...]  [-body text] [-cc addrs ...]  [-from addr] [-subject subject] [-version] [-help]

DESCRIPTION

       mhmail  is intended as a replacement for the standard Berkeley mail program (mail or mailx), which is compatible with nmh.  This program is
       intended for the use of programs such as cron, which expect to send mail automatically to various users.  It is also used  by  various  nmh
       commands  to  mail  various  error  notifications.  Although mhmail can be used interactively, it is recommended that comp and send be used
       instead to send messages.

       When invoked without arguments, it simply invokes inc to incorporate new messages from the user's maildrop.  When  one  or  more  users	is
       specified, a message is read from the standard input and spooled to a temporary file.  mhmail then invokes post with the name of the tempo-
       rary file as its argument to deliver the message to the specified user.

       The -subject subject switch can be used to specify the "Subject:" field of the message.

       By default, mhmail will read the message to be sent from the standard input.  You can specify the text of the message at the  command  line
       with  the  -body text switch.  If the standard input has zero length, mhmail will not send the message.	You can use the switch -body "" to
       force an empty message.

       Normally, addresses appearing as arguments are put in the "To:" field.  If the -cc switch is used, all addresses following it are placed in
       the "cc:" field.

       By using -from addr, you can specify the "From:" header of the draft.  Naturally, post will fill-in the "Sender:" header correctly.

FILES

       /usr/bin/mh/inc		  Program to incorporate maildrop into folder
       /usr/lib/mh/post 	  Program to deliver a message
       /tmp/mhmail*		  Temporary copy of message

SEE ALSO

       inc(1), post(8)

DEFAULTS

       None

CONTEXT

       If inc is invoked, then inc's context changes occur.

MH.6.8								   11 June 2012 							 MHMAIL(1)
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