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Old 03-19-2005
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Originally Posted by mskarica
I tried all 3, and all 3 worked perfectly. The last 2 options are a whole lot easier for me to understand, even though I did read up on regular expressions, and was able to follow some of the first option.

Thanks for your help Smilie
Sorry, I only partially read your first post. I thought there was some reason for using grep, had I read properly I would have said the same as ZB.

or maybe

Code:
awk '/Content-Disposition: attachment/ {print NR}' mbox

# 9  
Old 06-26-2008
Another method

You can also use the below mentioned command too..

grep -n "Content-Disposition: attachment" mbox | cut -d":" -f1
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