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dcox@ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox) writes:

># cat mail_folder | mail newperson
>but I would rather the posting were sent as individual messages.

There is a MailSplit program (circa 1986, by Russell Quin) that
will will break up a mail file into individual files. I will send
you a copy. I also include the man page for future reference.

oz
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MAILSPLIT(1L)     UNKNOWN SECTION OF THE MANUAL     MAILSPLIT(1L)



NAME
     mailsplit - split  a  file  or  mailbox  into  single  items
     (smaller files)

SYNOPSIS
     mailsplit [ -?  ]  [  -oformat  ]  [  -ppattern  ]  [  -n  ]
     [ file... ]

DESCRIPTION
     Mailsplit splits large files into smaller ones.  The  splits
     occur on lines that match a pattern , which defaults to
         ``^From ''
     so that the command
         mailsplit mbox
     will split a mail (1) format mail-box, putting each  message
     in a differnt file.

     Options are:

     -?   Print a summary of options.  Any  unknown  option  will
          also do this

     -p   The following string is taken to be  a  pattern  to  be
          used  to match input lines to determine points at which
          to split the input.  See ed (1) for details of the pat-
          terns.   The  pattern may contain newlines (which match
          themselves).

     -o   The folowing string is taken to be printf -style format
          to  be  used  in  the  generation  of output filenames.
          There should be a %d in the string, which will be  used
          to insert a disambiguating number.  This number is zero
          for the first file, and is incremented at the start  of
          each  output  file.  The -i option can be used to start
          the number with another value,  however.   The  default
          format is
              split:%-06.d
          which  results  in  files  having  names  split:000000,
          split:000001, split:000002, and so on.  Thus,
              mailsplit -o%d
          would produce files having the names 1, 2,  3,  and  so
          on.   The default format was chosen because the result-
          ing files are listed in numerical order by ls  (1),  or
          by
              echo *
          which is sometimes useful.

     -in  The number n will be used to number the first file; the
          number used each time will thereafter be incremented as
          normal.  See the -p option for the use of this.

     -nn  Split the input  every  n  lines.   In  this  case,  no
          pattern  matching  is performed.  This is the behaviour
          of split (1), except that mailsplit  normally  produced
          different filenames.

DIAGNOSTICS
     Mostly straight-forward.  ``Internal Error'' indicates a bug
     in  mailsplit  , and should be reported.  Exit staus 1 indi-
     cates an error parsing options - for example, if an  unknown
     flag  was ued.  Exit status 2 indicates a meaningless combi-
     nation was detected and rejected (this is rare in practice).
     Exit status 3 indicates a run-time problem - for example, if
     a file couldn't be opened.

SEE ALSO
     ed (1), mail (1), ls (1), split (1), printf (3).








































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