Thanking all of you for the help! On Wed 3/13/19 11:54 +0700 Robert Elz wrote: > | Given a sequence 'foo', how can I get the complement, > | i.e. all messages in the folder, not in sequence 'foo'? > >in your MH profile set something like > > sequence-negation: ^ > >(some people use "not" I believe). > >Then just use ^foo where you would otherwise use foo. > > | I want to save the results to sequence 'bar'. > >mark +folder -seq bar -zero ^foo
Thanks Robert, that worked! -- Hi Ralph: On Wed 3/13/19 11:37 -0000 Ralph Corderoy wrote: >kre's correct. Another way is > > pick -seq bar all > mark -s bar -d foo > >That's an approach that extends to more complex set operations. Nice! Also easy to understand. Thanks Ralph. On Wed 3/13/19 13:55 -0000 lam...@dr.com wrote: >> Given a sequence 'foo', how can I get the complement, i.e. all messages in >> the >> folder, not in sequence 'foo'? I want to save the results to sequence 'bar'. >> >> I could write a shell script, but can this be done more directly? > >You could use "mark -seq bar -zero -delete foo". When used with -delete >the -zero switch first adds all messages from the selected folder to the >sequence that is specified with -seq instead of first emptying that sequence. OK, all in one command, thanks! -- Tom -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
