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messages(1L)

quick count of messages in mailbox or folder

From the original Amiga UNIX 2.1 manual. Some things it mentions may not be in this release.

messages - quick count of messages in mailbox or folder

messages
messages folder-name

Messages counts the occurances of "^From " in either the current incoming mailbox or the specified folder.

This is, in fact, a simple little shell script!!

Dave Taylor, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

from(1L), elm(1L)

Don't be foolish...

Syd Weinstein elm@DSI.COM (dsinc!elm)

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