In my madness I overlooked the obvious answer... I put the pipe before the save and it worked. Ho hum. On 5/17/07, Donovan Niesen <dniesen at gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to process an email with a bash script, this is what my > .forward file looks like: > > # Exim filter > if $header_subject contains "Alarm Detail Report" then > unseen save "email.htm" > unseen pipe "/bin/bash /home/spectrumalarm/received.sh" > endif > > Now in the exim log these commands always happen in the reverse order > so the bash script does not have a chance to parse the saved file > (pipe then save email.htm). > > Is there another way I can do this so this happens in the right order? > > -- > Donovan Niesen > -- Donovan Niesen