mboxget   [plain text]

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# mboxget - get a message from a mailbox
#
# usage: mboxget [mass-check-mbox-id ...]
#
# <@LICENSE>
# Copyright 2004 Apache Software Foundation
# 
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
# 
#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
# 
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
# </@LICENSE>

use strict;

my $prog = $0;
$prog =~ s@.*/@@;

foreach my $where (@ARGV) {
  my ($file, $offset) = ($where =~ m/(.*?)(?:\.(\d+))?$/);
  open(INPUT, $file) || die("$prog: open $file failed: $!\n");
  if ($offset) {
    seek(INPUT, $offset, 0) || die("$prog: seek $offset failed: $!\n");
  }
  my $past = 0;
  while (<INPUT>) {
    if ($past) {
      last if substr($_,0,5) eq "From ";
    }
    else {
      $past = 1;
    }
    print $_;
  }
  close INPUT;
}