• Jeremy Harris via Exim-users [2024-10-12 22:44]:
> On 12/10/2024 20:36, Ian Z via Exim-users wrote:
>> The program outputs multiple lines, only the first
>> is relevant to me. What is the least painful way to extract it?
>
> Probably a ${sg } (assuming you don't have to handle *escaped*
> newlines)
${sg} was also my first initial reaction, but then I thought, maybe
${extract} with newline as separator is less painful?
works for the first line:
> ${extract{1}{\n}{${readfile{/etc/group}}}}
wheel:*:0:root,km
works for the 10000th line:
> ${extract{10000}{\n}{${readfile{/var/log/exim/mainlog}}}}
2024-10-08 23:21:49.807 1syJWV-0000000065x-2IiR <km@???>:
dovecot_pipe transport output: lda(km@???): Error:
net_connect_unix(/var/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied
works for 10000th line with ${run}, too:
> ${extract{10000}{\n}{${run{/bin/cat /var/log/exim/mainlog}{$value}}}}
2024-10-08 23:21:49.807 1syJWV-0000000065x-2IiR <km@???>:
dovecot_pipe transport output: lda(km@???): Error:
net_connect_unix(/var/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied
have to look at that permission error there, I guess :)
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