[Gllug] How can I revert a mail digest?

[Stig Brautaset]

* tet at accucard.com <tet at accucard.com> spake thus:
> 
> >man (for|proc)mail(ex|rc)? for more info [1]
> >
> >Regards,
> >Stig
> >
> >[1] -- regular expressions are so much fun :)
> 
> Yes, they are, but being the pedant that I am, I have to point out
> the error in yours :-) It should be:
> 
> 	(formail|procmail(ex|rc)?)

Yeah, I knew that. Or even

	formail|procmail(ex|rc)? 

would do (stripping off your superflous paranthesis :-) ) I just
resented the fact that I had to type the four consecutive characters
"mail" twice :-)

> Yours would match on formailrc and formailex as well as the intended
> matches. But since we're talking about typing something at the shell,
> it would probably be better specified as:
> 
> 	man {formail,procmail{,ex,rc}}

This is off course much better.

Regards,
Stig

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