Re: save to list dir and conditionally to $DEFAULT

Eric Smith squawked out on Monday 12-Nov-2012@01:05:14
> I want all list mail to be saved to the appropriate list folder
> and if they match a pattern in a file, also save to $DEFAULT.
> This is what I am trying, multiple stanzas like these;
> 
> 
> :0:
> * ^x-mailing-list:([^ ]*\/\<.*)
> {
> :0c
> $LISTDIR/`echo $MATCH|sed -e 's/[@\.>].*//g' -e 's/.*[ <]//' -e
> 's/.*://'`
> :0
> * ? egrep -if  /home/eric/serialised_subjects
> $DEFAULT
> }
> 
> :0:
> * ^x-list:([^ ]*\/\<.*)
> {
> :0c
> $LISTDIR/`echo $MATCH|sed -e 's/[@\.>].*//g' -e 's/.*[ <]//' -e
> 's/.*://'`
> :0
> * ? egrep -if  /home/eric/serialised_subjects
> $DEFAULT
> }
> 
> The behaviour without the `c' in :0c is that the mail is only saved in
> the list dir. And with the `c' in :0c, the mail is saved 
> MULTIPLE times in list dirs (as it matches more than one list
> regex condition) and one in the $DEFAULT.
> 
> What would be the correct implementation?

If your shell escape is producing multiple matches, then you probably should be doing that separately, and then checking the output.


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