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From: Ryan Loots <ryan@donald.iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: egrep and Variables
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Hi There

I would like to alter my .procmailrc to allow searches for strings in
variable names, for example:
 
====snip====
LOCALDOMAINS=(blah.com|blah.co.za|blah.org.za)

:0:
*TOjsmith@$LOCALDOMAINS
/home/jsmith/mail/personal
====snip====
 
Of course, the problem with this is that egrep '$LOCALDOMAINS' looks for
the text 'LOCALDOMAINS' after an end of line. How cute.
 
Any suggestions on how to force the egrep that procmail spawns to search
for variable names would be welcome. :)

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Ryan
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http://donald.iafrica.com

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