I would think the more robust solution would be to use procmail to perform the wanted removals before depositing the mail in inbox. Sorry, I don't have the procmail syntax for this in my head, but procmail is well documented. On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Jim Stevenson on September 17, 2001, at 04:33] > > Hi: > > >I missed the shell script that skips quoted lines starting with >. > > > >I would appreciate another post of it. > > The single command: > > grep -v '^>' > > will read standard input, remove lines which begin with ">", and write the > remaining lines to standard output. To put it into a script, create a file > which looks like: > > #!/bin/sh > grep -v '^>' > > and then make that file executable. > > >Will it work in any unix mail progrram, > >to avoid the trouble of saving the file and processing it? > > That's hard to say, since there are so many. It can certainly be made to work > with pine, which supports specifiable viewer filters. > > >Thanks. > > You're welcome. > > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp