Michael Richardson wrote: > I hadn't thought of just refiling in the order like that. > I rather like it, and I think I'll adopt your script. > thanks.
There were a couple of weaknesses in my simple script. You may know this already, Michael... but, partly "for the record" (and maybe for people who haven't seen much nmh scripting before) here's the script again, then a couple of tricks: > for sequence in `mark -list | sed 's/:.*//'` > do > refile -link $sequence +inbox/sorted > done PROBLEM #1: The script doesn't re-define the sequences in the destination folder. That's pretty easy to fix by adding an entry like this to the .mh_profile: Previous-sequence: pseq And use commands like this after the "refile" to copy the "pseq" sequence into a sequence with the original name, from $sequence: mark -add -seq $sequence pseq +inbox/sorted folder -fast +inbox The "Previous-sequence" entry can slow down nmh because it writes the pseq sequence after every change to any folder. So it might be better to have your script make a temporary .mh_profile file that's built from your default .mh_profile with a "Previous-sequence:" entry added. Point the MH environment variable to that temporary MH profile while the script is running: mhp=/tmp/MHP$$ cat $HOME/.mh_profile > $mhp echo "Previous-sequence: pseq" >> $mhp MH=$mhp; export MH ...run nmh commands... rm $mhp PROBLEM #2: The script includes the "cur" sequence in the list of sequences it copies. You can fix that by telling sed not to print that sequence: for sequence in `mark | sed -n '/^cur:/!s/:.*//p'` or pipe mark's output through 'grep -v cur:', or something. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/
