Re: archiving all but 100 newest messages to other folder

* Ben Peter <Ben(_dot_)Peter(_at_)t-online(_dot_)de> [010417 02:00]:
> Hi all,
>
> can I use procmail/formail to keep only 100 messages in an mbox file and
> move all others to another folder? 
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
Here's an idea.  Use at your own risk, though.  I haven't tested it.

:0i
| ls -t msg.* | sed '1,100d' | xargs -i mv '{}' another_folder

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