Okay, so it could be a more useful sigfile tool, but it is nifty to play around with. ("How many sigs do I have quoted from such-and-such a newsgroup?" "How many of my sigs contain the word 'f*ck'?" etc.) Maybe, some day, I'll write more useful stuff along these lines.

What really impressed me when I was writing this is how easy it was to write. Took me less than five minutes. I like Perl.

(It's useful to know that my sigs are stored in a %-separated text file; sort of like a fortune file.)

Update: Changed "map {chop} @sigs" to "chomp @sigs". Thanks blakem!

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

# sigrep -- grep sigs for a string

use strict;

my $pattern = $ARGV[0];

my @sigs = ();

{
  local $/ = '%';
  open SIGS, "<sigs"
      or die "Cannot open sigs file: $!\n";
  @sigs = <SIGS>;
  chomp @sigs;
  close SIGS;
}

my @matches = grep /$pattern/, @sigs;

foreach (@matches) {
  print "---\n$_\n";
}

print "---\n";

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