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Fri, 15 Aug 2003

converting mbox to mh

I had a bit of mail in my old mbox files that I wanted to refile to mh, so here's the oneliner that does it.

cat main | \
perl -e '\
$x = 0; \
while (<>) { \
   if (m/^From /) { \
      $x++; \
      open(MAIL, "> $x"); \
   }; \
   print MAIL $_; \
}'

main is the name of the mbox. After doing this, I simply used the refile(1) command to drop them in my main mh folder. <3 perl.

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