rendered paste body#DESIRED OUTPUT (for conky):
#calmar@tuxli:~/bin> ./conky.awk ~/.mail/inbox
#F: mac@calmar.ws S: subject
#F: calmar4 S: 44
#F: calmar5 S: 5 5 55
#F: calmar6 S: 6 6 6 6
#What actually works, now. I'm just not sure if there are smarter ways to achive that?
#scanning the From: and Subject: in the inbox file and printing them nicely formatted
#!/usr/bin/awk -f
BEGIN{
z=0;
}
/^From:/ {
from="";
for(i=2;i<=NF;i++){ # I want $2..(until an item beginning with '<' )
if (substr($i,0,1) != "<"){ # '<' is there when: name + email. then only name
from = from " " $i;
}
}
tmp = sprintf ("F:%-15s", substr(from, 0, 15)); # From:
}
/^Subject/ {
subj="";
for(i=2;i<=NF;i++){ # I want $2..NF, that's the way to go?
subj = subj " " $i;
}
arry[z] = tmp sprintf (" S: %s", substr(subj,0,27)); # complete output
z++
}
END{
u=0
while (u++ < 4){
if (--z >= 0)
print arry[z];
else
print
}
}