LYNX-DEV LYNX: fast,easy rm of mail msgs

[David Combs]

Neat way to delete the unwanted OF lynx-dev mail,
   FROM unix mail, QUICK:

mail -H >! t25
egrep -i lynx t25 >! t26.lynx
(maybe:)
egrep -i <other thing> >! t26.other1
egrep -i <other thing2> >! t26.other2
...

   (awk2 is alias: awk '{print $2 }' )

awk2 t26.lynx | fmt >! t27.lynx
in vi, put "d " in front of each line
  (or add sed to above pipe)

Then, write down on paper the numbers from t26.lynx
that you DO want to read.

run mail, and read them.  DO NOT EXIT MAIL.

do ^Z (to mail)

cat t27.lynx (which contains lines "d 23 25 27 28 29 ...").

with mouse, "copy" those "d" lines (all of them
  at once).

fg back into mail.

paste!   zap, they're gone!  All at once.

Then you can do "h" and see what OTHER mail
you have...
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