My scripting talent is sadly failing...

[Tom G. Christensen]

Nigel Kendrick wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I have put together the following one-liner to re-submit all emails sent to
> me from an archive folder - it works EXCEPT that the 'echo/cut' command is
> not removing the file extension from the file name and so the emails are not
> processed in the queue. Would someone kindly have a look and educate me!! 
> 
> grep -l 'To: <nigel.kendrick' * | xargs -t -i bash -c "chmod 700 {} ; cp {}
> /var/spool/postfix/hold/`echo {} | cut -d . -f 1` "
> 
I often find that using a simple for loop is much more straightforward 
than fiddling with xargs.
Like this:
for i in $(grep -l 'To: <nigel.kendrick' *); do fnam=$(echo $i | cut -d. 
-f1); chmod 700 $i; cp $i /var/spool/postfix/hold/$fnam); done

-tgc