NAME¶
newsbody - Run a program on the body of a mail or news message
SYNOPSIS¶
newsbody [-fhqsv] [-k headername ] -n message
-p program [-- [ arguments... ]]
DESCRIPTION¶
newsbody copies the body of a news or email article in
message to
a temporary file (called the
bodyfile) and then calls
program
with its
arguments.
program is supposed to somehow change the
bodyfile. It can for instance be a spell checker. Afterwards the
possibly changed body is remerged with the headers and copied back into the
message.
If
message is specified as
- then
newsbody will act as a
filter, i.e. standard input and standard output will be used.
%f in the
arguments will be expanded to the name of the
bodyfile, or
- if the -f option is used. Use
%% for a
real % character.
OPTIONS¶
- -f
- The called program is a filter so don't make a temporary
file, but pipe the body to its standard input and read it back from its
standard output.
- -h
- Keep the entire header. This flag can also be used if
newsfile doesn't have a header at all.
- -q
- Also remove quotes before filtering the body. Lines
starting with > are considered quotes.
- -s
- Also remove signature before filtering the body.
- -k headername
- Keep these header lines in the bodyfile. Multiple -k flags
are allowed.
- -v
- Print the version and exit.
FILES¶
newsbody uses one or two temporary files with names given by the
mkstemp(3) or the
tmpnam(3) function.
BUGS¶
If some system call gives an unexpected error
newsbody will stop
immediately with an error message leaving its temporary files.
AUTHOR¶
Byrial Jensen <byrial@image.dk>
SEE ALSO¶
pospell(1).