[Gllug] procmail recipe to weed out html from mails

[Nix]

On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Stig Brautaset stated:
> * Nix <nix at esperi.demon.co.uk> spake thus:
>> The /dev/fd0 is pointing lynx at its own standard input, because (at
>> least some) lynxes have no `-'-a-like syntax to do that. (For
>> portability's sake, it should really be `/dev/stdin', which is a symlink
>> to `/dev/fd/0' (and /dev/fd is itself a symlink to /proc/self/fd...) )
> 
> aah, so I can use:
> 
>| (echo "[html stripped]"; lynx -dump -force_html -stdin)
> 
> instead then?

No, because lynx doesn't support a -stdin switch (at least, it doesn't here).

But you should be able to say

(echo "[html stripped]"; lynx -dump -force_html /dev/stdin)

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