Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 03:34:54 -0800 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, mikko@whitecortex.net Subject: Re: Script to merge mailinglist archives Message-ID: <200501270334.54817.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <1106824011.86743.21.camel@whitecortex.net> References: <1106824011.86743.21.camel@whitecortex.net>
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On Thursday 27 January 2005 03:06 am, Mikko Heiskanen <mikko@whitecortex.net> wrote: > Hi list. > > I've found archives of freebsd-questions mailinglist very useful. > But I have found them difficult to search, as in one month there can > be many archives, not just one per month. > So I would like to merge all archives of the same month into a single > mailbox containing all messages sent that month (I am aware this file > could come quite large). > I have a feeling this can be a simple shellscript/one-liner with some > awk magic, but I am having hard time figuring out how to tackle the > problem. I should somehow be able to compare a list of files which > match the month, and cat >> results to a file whose filename comes > that matched months last 2 digits of year+ 2 digits of month. And > this for all the files in a directory containing, say, archives from > 1998 -> 2005. Easy? I'm assuming you're using mbox format. Well, to make it easier you might want to use something like /usr/ports/mail/archmbox. I use it in a cron job for archiving questions from the -questions list on a machine where Mutt is the default mail client. When I'm using this machine I use KMail's expire feature. But I'm sure it's relatively easy to script. You might look at archmbox as an example - it's written in Perl. - jt
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