Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comcon!roy From: roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Another for the wish list... Summary: A brief shell script will do that Message-ID: <345@comcon.UUCP> Date: 4 Mar 90 11:00:13 GMT References: <132429@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>n <886@cdin-1.UUCP> Organization: Computer Connection, Anchorage Alaska Lines: 26 In article <886@cdin-1.UUCP>, fred@cdin-1.UUCP (Fred Rump) writes: > > This also brings to mind a wish that would permit me to go thru all those > folders sequentially somehow to weed out ancient messages that are of no > relevance anymore. From the Bash command line for i in ~/Mail/*;do elm -f $i;done as a shell script, I suppose ----cut---here--- for i in ~/Mail/* do elm -f $i done ----cut---here--- Then, just Q out of each folder after you've culled. I went through about 40 folders today (pre-move housecleaning :-) -- _R_o_y _M_. _S_i_l_v_e_r_n_a_i_l | UUCP: uunet!comcon!roy | "Every race must arrive at this #include ;#define opinions MINE | point in its history" SnailMail: P.O. Box 210856, Anchorage, | ........Mr. Slippery Alaska, 99521-0856, U.S.A., Earth, etc. |