On Thu, October 16, 2008 1:39 pm, Jim Donovan wrote: > Have you tried csplit(1) - set pattern to '^From ' and stand back. You'll > have to deal with an empty file before the first item. > > You say they're sequential so no further processing is required to > separate old ones. Note that many spams have crazy Date values.
Jim, thanks no, I don't need to spilt a file, this is a Maildir, sorry, I might have said 'mailbox' meaning a Maildir mail box I have abt 50,000 files with date/time stamps sequential as '11:29', '11:30', '11:30' etc 1222219798.M92715P19307V000000000000FD00I0003537F_5855.sbt.net.au,S=36316:2,S -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 34002 Sep 24 11:29 1222219799.M303140P19307V000000000000FD00I00035381_5857.sbt.net.au,S=34002:2,S -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 517769 Sep 24 11:30 1222219800.M489462P19307V000000000000FD00I00035385_5858.sbt.net.au,S=517769:2,S -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 46269 Sep 24 11:30 each email's header appears to be correct; so, I'm trying to read each header, if date is within last 7 days, copy it eslewhere (back to Maildir) sorry for using wrong terminology >> I have a mailbox with approximately 50,000 emails; >> >> >> when I tried to age the emails with archivemail, archivemail or some >> part of it couldn't quite cope with size/volume/some unknown aspect, >> and, 'crashed' on this mailbox >> >> >> perhaps as a result of that, I now have some 50,000 email files >> sequentaily date/time stamped, some, there is no way of sorting on file >> date/time stamp (that I can see) >> >> I think... that failed procedure might have also duplicated? >> triplicated? quadrupled? mail volume... >> >> the mail headers do have correct date/time >> >> how can I copy say the last 7 days worth of emails from the files? >> >> like, "if date in the header=last 7 days, copy this file from here to >> there" >> > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
