Question

In Tasker for Android, the %EFROM variable is set to the last email’s FROM field.
I want to write a command to get only the name from it, not the address.

So I tried using the Run Command in Secure Settings plugin, writing:

echo "%EFROM" | sed "s/ *<.*//"

and I get an error:

<stdin>[1]: sed: not found

I tried with grep and cut instead of sed, without luck. If I write simply

echo "%EFROM" 

I don’t get errors, but I get the usual content of %EFROM, of course.

Then I tried to add the full path of sed in front of it. Now I don’t get errors, but it just does not filter anything, giving back the original string.

What am I doing wrong??

Thanks!!

L.

Answer 1

I found a solution, by adding busybox in front of sed.
Not sure why it is needed, though. I found several places on the Internet that don’t need busybox. Maybe you should inform Tasker where busybox is or something…