Strange Problem

[Streams]

Hey guys,

I have a bit of an issue with this script:

MAILDIR="/var/spool/mail/lastname.firstname"
TEXT="Re:"
DESTDIR="~/Mail/DestFolder"


find "$MAILDIR" -type f | while read N   #This will find my Mail and read it
                                         #But to do that read needs a varaible.
do                                       #Begin the body of the while loop
       cat "$N" | grep -q "$TEXT"        #Using N as the location of my mail
       if [ $? == 0 ]; then              #If my text is matched at least once
           mv "$N" "$DESTDIR"            #Move my inbox mail int my mail folder
       fi                                #end my if statement with fi

done                                     #end while

I have no idea what is wrong. The Paths are correct. The commands seem to be ok.

[Streams]

one of the possibilites could be the find command and the type that im specifying. I should prolly be looking at the Mail level and not the file level.

Having a very hard time with this

[smolloy]

I know I'm really showing my ignorance with this question, but do you need the quotes around each of the variables?

[Streams]

I took another approach because i knew what was happening.

If a single occurence of "whatever i had" is found by grep it will move EVERYTHING to the specifed directory.

This is a better approach taken by me accompanied by another:

#!/bin/bash

cat mbox | sed -r 's/From /END====From /' | sed -n 'H; ${g;s/\n/+=+/g;p}' |\
sed 's/END====From/END\nFrom /g' |\
egrep ".*Subject: Hello.*" |\
sed 's/+=+/\n/g' > ~/Mail/Destdir

exstatic.

On the other hand. A way that i can simplfy is to create the three golden files, ".forward , .promailrc , general.rc ".
Also:

I have three files, .forward ( in home ) .procmailrc and general.rc ( in my .procmail directory ) And im wondering if i can get my general.rc file to do the same thing as the above code. My general.rc looks like this:

:0
* ^From:.*sumone@sumaddy.com
* ^Subject:.*hello
$HOME/Mail/Hello

What i think that file does is it looks for who the mail is from, whether or not hello is in the subject line and puts what it found into a Hello folder.

So my .forward looks like this:

"|IFS=' '&&exec usr/bin/procmail||exit 75 #username"

Now the most important file .procmailrc that ties everything together is as follows:

VERBOSE=off
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/username
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/general.rc
#end of .procmailrc

All three of these files work together to do the same task as the sed command script. And i know the problem might be with the general.rc i heard the grep and sed are built in?

Any help ios appreciated!