Re: Stripping extra stuff from text

On Wed Apr 29 2015 10:30:39 @lbutlr said:
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> MSGTEXT=`/usr/local/bin/formail -I ""`
> SMSTEXT=`echo $MSGTEXT | lynx --dump --dont_wrap_pre -stdin | tr '\n' ' ' | /usr/bin/cut -c1-140`

I ended up with this, but I don’t especially like it:

SMSTEXT=`echo $MSGTEXT | lynx --dump --dont_wrap_pre -stdin  |sed -e 's/^   //' |sed -e 's/[-=_]//g'| tr '\n' ' '  | cut -c1-140`


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