[PATCH 2/3] sh-functions: add fetch_all_headers function

Jacob Keller jacob.e.keller at intel.com
Tue Feb 11 09:50:33 PST 2014


This patch adds a fetch_all_headers function which is used to get every
occurrence of an mbox header, rather than just the first. In combination
with the change to merge_addresses, this can be used to grab every Cc,
and To address.

Artem: massage comments

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy at linux.intel.com>
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diff --git a/helpers/aiaiai-sh-functions b/helpers/aiaiai-sh-functions
index 15fb5db..8d15570 100644
--- a/helpers/aiaiai-sh-functions
+++ b/helpers/aiaiai-sh-functions
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ compile_helpers()
 	done
 }
 
-# Fetch the first occurrence of an mbox header from a file
+# Fetch the first occurrence of header "$1" from the mbox file
 # Usage: fetch_header <header_name> < <mbox_file>
 fetch_header()
 {
@@ -93,6 +93,19 @@ fetch_header()
 	formail -z -c -x "$hdr:" | head -n1 | aiaiai-decode-rfc-2047
 }
 
+# Fetch all occurrences of header "$1" from the first e-mail in the mbox file
+# Usage: fetch_header <header_name> < <mbox_file>
+fetch_all_headers()
+{
+	local hdr="$1"
+
+	program_required "formail" ""
+
+	# Take every occurrence of the header. This will only take occurrences
+	# from the first of a combined mbox.
+	formail -z -c -x "$hdr:" | aiaiai-decode-rfc-2047
+}
+
 # Similar to fetch_header, but exits with code 1 if the header hasn't been
 # found, and has a little bit different interface (the result is stored in
 # "<var>").




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