On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > I get the following message when i attemp the string
> > malformed message id mailq|grep \<|cut -c 11-27 after -Mrm option
> > I assume the problem was with the \<|, and have tried various variation of
> > it, but no success.
>
> Did you by any chance miss the backticks surrounding the part after exim -Mrm?
>
> > From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:mallet@efn.org]
> > exim -Mrm `mailq|grep \<|cut -c 11-27`
>
> Try copy + pasting this above ...
Better yet, ditch the "back ticks" altogether, and do:
$ exim -Mrm $(mailq | grep \< | cut -c 11-27)
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Juha Saarinen