Re: [Sheflug] writing to floppy

[Richard Stevenson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8 Oct 2002, Alex Hudson wrote:

> > Out of interest - how many email are in that mbox? Could just be one of
> > 235MB for all I know :)
>
> A noddy "grep 'Subject:' mbox | wc -l" (is there a better way? I looked
> for some mbox tools, couldn't find any, and that seemed good enough...)

Yep.. try

grep -c '^From " mbox

:)

Cheers

R


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