Re: !Postprocess and e-mailed summary report

Robin Bowes wrote:
> However, I'd like to use messagewallstats from a shell like this:
> 
> # cat /var/log/mwall/\@* | messagewallstats
> 
> John's patch won't allow this, 

You're right, but it is also not that important to do this often, since the 
summaries are already being mailed to you.  If you really need to do it 
manually, too, the inconvenience of a slightly longer commandline is not that 
significant.

> unless you use something like:
> 
> # cat /var/log/mwall/\@* | messagewallstats /dev/stdin
> 
> ...which is something I want to avoid as it seems a little inelegant.

There is a fine line between elegant programming and ignoring a perfectly good 
solution because you are overthinking the problem.  I just checked and the 
second form you noted works just fine and is somewhat shorter than what I have 
been doing:

	cat \@* | messagewallstats - 2>/dev/null

but either way, it works fine.

John

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