#!/bin/sh # catmutt - wrap mutt allowing mboxes read from stdin. # # Copyright (C) 1998-1999 Moritz Barsnick , # 2009 William Trevor King # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License # version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA # # developed from grepm-0.6 # http://www.barsnick.net/sw/grepm.html PROGNAME=`basename "$0"` export TMPDIR="${TMPDIR-/tmp}" # used by mktemp umask 077 if [ $# -gt 0 ] && [ "$1" = "--help" ]; then echo 1>&2 "Usage: ${PROGNAME} [--help] mutt-arguments" echo 1>&2 "" echo 1>&2 "Read a mailbox file from stdin and opens it with mutt." echo 1>&2 "For example: cat somefile.mbox | ${PROGNAME}" exit 0 fi # Note: the -t/-p options to mktemp are deprecated for mktemp (GNU # coreutils) 7.1 in favor of --tmpdir but the --tmpdir option does not # exist yet for my 6.10-3ubuntu2 coreutils TMPFILE=`mktemp -t catmutt.XXXXXX` || exit 1 trap "rm -f ${TMPFILE}; exit 1" 1 2 3 13 15 cat > "${TMPFILE}" || exit 1 # Now that we've read in the mailbox file, reopen stdin for mutt/user # interaction. When in a pipe we're not technically in a tty, so use # a little hack from "greno" at # http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-programming-scripting/98607-bash-stdin-problem.html tty="/dev/`ps -p$$ --no-heading | awk '{print $2}'`" exec < ${tty} if [ `wc -c "${TMPFILE}" | awk '{print $1}'` -gt 0 ]; then echo 1>&2 "Calling mutt on temporary mailbox file (${TMPFILE})." mutt -R -f "${TMPFILE}" "$@" else echo 1>&2 "Empty mailbox input." fi rm -f "${TMPFILE}" && echo 1>&2 "Deleted temporary mailbox file (${TMPFILE})."