Re: splitting mbox files

[ben <ben_foley@web.de>]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:44:02 +0000 (GMT)
Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>  Is there a program on debian that would let me split an mbox file
>  into a
> series of single files each containing an email? I've looked and found
> mboxgrep but not sure if there is something else that would be better
>

pigeon posted this script just yesterday.

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 #!/bin/bash
 IFS=$'\n'
 i=0
 BASENAME="split.mbox"
 while read x; do
     echo "$x" | grep '^From ' && i=$(( i + 1 ))
     echo "$x" >> $BASENAME.$i
 done
 
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