Where is your email located? In an mbox? If so start with grep. Does the one liner have a particular format such as:
q: why did the chicken cross the road? because a penguin was chasing it You want a text file with no newlines or carriage returns, just % separating the jokes, right? On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:57:59PM -0800, Linux Rocks ! wrote: > So, Id like to extract just the one liner portion of email sent from joker.org > (ie, I want all the one-liners from all the memail joke of the day messages I > have, and a "%" to separate each oneliner, and Id like them put in a text > file, then I can make a fortune database with it, and use it with fortune.) > > What would be the best way to do this? > > Jamie > > > -- > No microsoft products were used to produce this message. > EUG-LUG Mailing List: > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
