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Can be this the problem:

Portability:
The -v option is available with POSIX complient awk implementations. The major disadvantage of this method is, that it's not widely portable. gawk supports...

BTW,
eval $(nawk -v action='choose' -f file.awk input.txt)
doesn't work...
I tried to print out action in nawk
print action
print $action

I still fail to pass any value into nawk

I'm using BASH and it works with ' '
but I still don't know how to get a value from forward.awk

I cannot find any documentation for "EVAL" in google.

When I write
eval $( nawk -f forward.awk /var/mail/$USER )
it wants more input so I have to end it with double ^D .

Also I'm not sure if I understand it correctly. What does eval do in this...

Is it possible to get a value from NAWK?
so I can print every message and let user choose which mail to delete and after that I would get which mail he chose and after that I would call nawk again...

Exactly what I wanted...:)

Thanks a lot...

Peto

Hello,

presently, I'm calling nawk from my main script and have nawk defined in one file. So I call nawk like this
nawk -f file input

This file defines how to separate mails in /var/mail/$user...

Well, I'm just a newbie too, but I will If I am able.

Hey Garric,

I've solved by using a special variable which I set OFF after reading main header ("From <mail.adress>...") and set it on after reading on of sub-headers("From, content-length...").
...

Hello guys,

I wonder if it is possible to clear out the screen in AWK.
I'm printing out mail messages and I would like every message starting on the beginning of the screen. When I use FOR loop...

I've solved it :))...
But be sure I'll be back with another problem :rolleyes:

Hello, I thought I would the rest alone, but I cannot make it.

I had to remove "/^From /" before main part of AWK, so it doesnt omit text behind block, which starts with "From ", separated with...

Works flawlessly now :))).

Its nice to have such a good forum :).

Ok.I'll try to start expressing myself a bit better :).

Firstly, I considered last character '1' in peto.awk to be a typo so I didn't include it. But now as you've comment it, I see I was wrong....

I got it, but wasnt sure. Now I understand it thx.

Is it possible to read from STDIN in NAWK? I cannot find it on internet. I would like to write max. 3 Mail Headers and then wait for user to...

Yup..it helps..:)...though I'm not sure how it works.
So

headers="(^From )|(^Message-ID:)|(^Date:)|(^From:)|(^To:)|(^Subject:)"
headers can start with (From,Message-ID,Date...)

/^From/
and...

THIS IS ONE MESSAGE(TEXT in RED is written by MAIL program as Message content - I'd like the same):

From newbie@gmail.com Thu May 18 10:17:58 2006
Return-Path: <newbie@gmail.com>
Received: from...

Well, as far I know it is separated by Headers
From 'name' 'date' ...
TEXT

From ...

But, there is some TEXT just behind the header that isn't printed out by 'mail', cuz its info about the...

Any ideas how to get just one message from /var/mail/user?

Hello guys,

I'm in desperate need. I need to write a script that behaves like a "mail" shell program.

I've a base of the program -menu and so on, but what I cannot do is how to read messages...