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Re: Converting message files to mbox

2002-02-01 22:20:38
"David W. Tamkin" <dattier(_at_)ripco(_dot_)com> writes:
...
Wouldn't one call to cat that saves n-1 calls to formail be helpful?

cat `ls -rt *.MSG` | formail -IContent-Length: -s >> oldmail.mbx

Kenneth had clarified in a latter message that the files didn't start with
"From " lines, so the above would possiblely result in input to formail
that can't be reliable split.

On the otherhand, your other suggestion:

and if not, at least, shouldn't the shell be allowed to open the output file
only once instead of reopening it for each message?

for x in `ls -rt *.MSG`
do
 formail -IContent-Length: < $x
done >> oldmail.mbx

will work just fine.


Philip Guenther
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