Man page or keyword search:   man All Sections 1 - General Commands 2 - System Calls 3 - Subroutines, Functions 4 - Special Files 5 - File Formats 6 - Games and Screensavers 7 - Macros and Conventions 8 - Maintenence Commands 9 - Kernel Interface New Commands Server 4.4BSD AIX Alpinelinux Archlinux Aros BSDOS BSDi Bifrost CentOS Cygwin Darwin Debian DigitalUNIX DragonFly ElementaryOS Fedora FreeBSD Gentoo GhostBSD HP-UX Haiku Hurd IRIX Inferno JazzOS Kali Knoppix LinuxMint MacOSX Mageia Mandriva Manjaro Minix MirBSD NeXTSTEP NetBSD OPENSTEP OSF1 OpenBSD OpenDarwin OpenIndiana OpenMandriva OpenServer OpenSuSE OpenVMS Oracle PC-BSD Peanut Pidora Plan9 QNX Raspbian RedHat Scientific Slackware SmartOS Solaris SuSE SunOS Syllable Tru64 UNIXv7 Ubuntu Ultrix UnixWare Xenix YellowDog aLinux   12896 pages apropos Keyword Search (all sections) Output format html ascii pdf view pdf save postscript

prev(1)								       prev(1)

NAME
       prev  -	show  the  previous message (only available within the message
       handling system, mh)

SYNOPSIS
       prev [+folder] [-[no]header] [-help] [-showproc program]	 [-noshowproc]
       [options to showproc]

OPTIONS
       Displays	 a  one-line header before the message. The header consists of
       the name of the folder and the message  number.	This  is  the  default
       behavior.  It  can  be  suppressed with the -noheader option.  Prints a
       list of the valid options to this command.   Specifies  an  alternative
       program	to list messages. The default is to use the program defined by
       the showproc: entry in the file. As with show, you can give options  to
       the  showproc program at the command line. These are passed directly to
       showproc by prev.

       The defaults for this command are:

       +folder	defaults to the current folder
       -header

DESCRIPTION
       The prev command displays the previous message in the  current  folder.
       The  previous  message  is  the	one  before the current message in the
       folder.	The message that is shown becomes the current message.

       You can specify a folder other than the current	folder	by  using  the
       +folder	argument.  If  you  specify a folder, that becomes the current
       folder.

RESTRICTIONS
       The prev command is really a link to the show program. As a result,  if
       you  make  a  link  to prev and that link is not called prev, your link
       will act like show instead. To avoid this, add a profile-entry for  the
       link to your MH profile and add the argument prev to the entry.

PROFILE COMPONENTS
       Path: To determine your Mail directory

       showproc: Program to show the message

EXAMPLES
       The  command  in the following example displays the previous message in
       the folder +copylog: $ prev +copylog

FILES
       The user profile.

SEE ALSO
       show(1), next(1)

								       prev(1)

                             _         _         _ 
                            | |       | |       | |     
                            | |       | |       | |     
                         __ | | __ __ | | __ __ | | __  
                         \ \| |/ / \ \| |/ / \ \| |/ /  
                          \ \ / /   \ \ / /   \ \ / /   
                           \   /     \   /     \   /    
                            \_/       \_/       \_/ 

Vote for polarhome