>Thanks. Seems... overkill... to have to fire up a parsing language, >but it will definitely work.
Remind me ... how many parsing languages get fired up for a random Unix command on a modern Unix system, today? :-) But, okay, that's not really fair. The mh-format language is, I think, pretty lightweight in terms of embeddable languages. Probably more problematic is I think scan(1) opens the message even though it doesn't need anything from it. >It also seems like mark(1) could do it. Currently it ignores its >message args if -list is given. It could be enhanced so that if >message args are given, then -list would only output sequence >membership for the given args. > >...time passes... > >I have a partial patch for mark which does what I described. Don't >know whether it's worth it or not. I think that would make sense to me; I cannot think of a reason why that wouldn't generally be useful. --Ken
