1 # mquote
2 
3 mquote - format MSG as a quotation.
4 
5 This is a tweaked copy of mquote from mblaze that adds the date of the
6 original message.
7 
8 	#!/bin/sh
9 
10 Extract the sender
11 
12 	: ${from:=$(mhdr -d -h x-original-from "$1")}
13 	: ${from:=$(mhdr -d -h from "$1")}
14 	: ${from:=Someone}
15 
16 and the date
17 
18 	pfmt="%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z"
19 	: ${date:=$(mhdr -d -h date "$1")}
20 	date="${date:+$(dateconv -f "$pfmt" "$date")}"
21 
22 	printf '%s%s wrote:\n' "${date:+On $date, }" "$from"
23 
24 Then strip the signature, empty lines and prefix everything with ">"
25 
26 	{ mshow -R "$1" || mshow -h '' -N "$1"; } |
27 		sed -n '/^-- $/,$!p'   |
28 		sed -e :a -e '/^\n*$/{$d;N;ba' -e '}' |
29 		sed 's/^/> /'