From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27132 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnml trouble -- track of all read messages is lost Date: 21 Nov 1999 20:08:38 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87d7t7iwsh.fsf@main.wgaf.net> <87903vivng.fsf@main.wgaf.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164214 23029 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:36:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:36:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA08360 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 23:10:47 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAB13408; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 22:09:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 21 Nov 1999 22:09:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA07672 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 22:09:12 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (qmailr@mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA08303 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 23:08:45 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 13512 invoked from network); 22 Nov 1999 04:08:42 -0000 Original-Received: from pm3-5-44.la.networkone.net (HELO satellite.local.lan) (reader@209.144.125.44) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 22 Nov 1999 04:08:42 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by satellite.local.lan (8.9.3/8.9.1) id UAA03669; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 20:08:38 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Ted Stern's message of "21 Nov 1999 18:16:12 -0800" Original-Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27132 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27132 Ted Stern writes: > >>>>> "Ted" == Ted Stern writes: > > >>>>> "Harry" == Harry Putnam writes: > Harry> Arcady Genkin writes: > >>> Thanks! That's cool. However, is there a way to batch-process them? I > >>> have 300+ Incoming* files. I would like to respool *all* of them. > > Harry> You could cat all the Incoming files into one big file then G f that > Harry> and resplit > > Harry> cd Mail; cat Incoming* >>BigIncoming > > Harry> Then do G f on BigIncoming > > Ted> The only problem with this is that the files would not be sorted by > Ted> date. I would be a little more careful and do something like > Ted> (untested) > > Ted> ls -t Incoming* | xargs cat >> BigIncoming > > Oops, change that to 'ls -rt' instead to get more recent files last. Or simply 'cat `ls -tr Incoming*` >>BigIncoming' Might be better to do the sorting in the nndoc group though, since that would also take care of any messages out of chron order in the Incomming files. `C-c C-s C-d' before respooling (`B r')