Re: checkmail problem

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Leung buggy wrote:

> i'm doing a assignment to write a script to check how many new mail i have
> under linux or unix.
>
> if [ $# -ne 0 ]
> then
>         echo $0 "take no parameter!!"
> else
>         no_mail=`mail -i | head -2 | tail -1 | cut -f2,3 -d' '`
>         check_mail=`echo $no_mail | cut -f2 -d' '`
>         if [ -z $check_mail ]
>         then
>                 echo "You have no mail"
>         else
>                 echo "You have" $no_mail
>         fi
> fi
>
> but the problem is "mail -i " need me to press 'q' to continue the run of
> script, is any better method to check how many new mail??

# adjust the address of INBOX if necessary
# (could be /var/spool/mail/$USER)
INBOX=/var/mail/$USER

grep ^From: $INBOX } wc -l

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