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Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> wrote:
> It's too bad that xargs(1) can't be used following the grep; the inner
> "while" loop could be disposed of entirely if so, but that's not how
> mv(1) works.

xargs -n1 should work.

> function newmv()
> {
>   destdir=$1
>   shift
>   mv "$@" $destdir
> }
>
> Then the "while" is replaced by
>      grep -isl ... | xargs newmv $newdir
> which perhaps isn't all that icky after all.

Assuming you make newmv a shell script and not just a shell function
in the current shell.

>> Also the problem of some messages that
>> came late to a thread, landing in a different group arises.  Keeping
>> all thead members in one group may not even be possible, except by
>> hand.  I'm not sure. 
>
> As soon as you decide to use date-based storage, you break either that
> storage mechanism or you break border-crossing threads.  Pick one or
> the other.

Yes... but if you could choose the date boundaries on the fly, you
could get whole threads for all the threads you're interested in.
Is there anything that can do this?


paul