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Hello. I have one file that is a collection of discarded emails. Each email is it's own section with each section beginning with the same header (ie 'Another Email' ). I want to traverse through the file and every time I find the header ('Another Email') I then want to pick out the 'To:' line information (which is on it's own line in the file) and the 'Subject:' line information which is on another line. I want to take all the 'To:' lines and 'Subject:' lines and write them to one file. I have been trying to do this using sed, awk, and grep but can't seem to get it to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Scott

Post the script you tried so far.

Scott
If you could give a sample of your input file (ie, the rejected mail file) it would be much helpful to those who want a try on this issue.

Due to the nature of the emails I can not post any of the info in the file but it essentially like this.
<> Another Email From Machine 1
Header and format info......
Date:......
Time:......
To: bob@yahoo.com
Subject: I need help with Unix scripting
HTML......
<> End section
<> Another Email From Machine 1
Header and format info......
Date:......
Time:......
To: tom@yahoo.com
Subject: Hi there.
HTML......
<> End section

I hope this helps.

Thanks,
Scott

Try this...

grep "^To:" inputfile > f1; grep "^Subject:" inputfile > f2;paste f1 f2 > yourfile;rm f1 f2


and check the file yourfile

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
infile="./scott33.txt"
tmpoutfile="./scott33.out"
lastfile="./scott33.done"
cat $infile|awk /"Another Email"/,/"Subject:"/ > $tmpoutfile
cat $tmpoutfile|egrep -e '(Subject:|To:)' > $lastfile
rm $tmpoutfile
cat $lastfile

This might do what you want.