[Gllug] procmail recipe to weed out html from mails

[Stig Brautaset]

* Nix <nix at esperi.demon.co.uk> spake thus:
> 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).

Well, my system is a hybrid between Debian testing and unstabble, and my
lynx has a -stdin switch (lest I wouldn't have thought of asking :)

Regards,
Stig

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