In article <20031025212653.GB2451@anubis.is.traumatized.org >,
jurgen@see.my.pgp.key says...
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> On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 02:11:55PM PDT, Mark wrote
> in article <MPG.1a0486dad3693e7b98976c@192.168.0.203>:
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> > I have several approx 22,000 emails from various mailing lists (Maildir
> > format) in a directory that I wish to sort and move to another directory
> > based on the date field in the header.
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> and you posted this to a slackware newsgroup because... ?
The files are on a slackware pc.
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> > slow....and my knowledge of grep and bash/perl scripting is at best
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> there are quite a few newsgroups dedicated to perl and
> shellscripting. you may try your luck there.
Thanks, I will post the question to these groups.

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Mark

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