On 2011-07-25 20:07, Bill M wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm piecing together a small script to remove duplicate messages from > various directories in Icedove. By default the files are stored in a > directory called 'Local Folders' - with the space - and this seems to be > creating a problem for bash. I can both cd to "Local Folders" and cd to > Local\ Folders from the command line but within the script it's a > different story. Bash refuses to recognize "Local Folders" as a > directory and breaks at the whitespace. Here's the script and the error > output. Any help appreciated. > > bill > > #! /bin/bash > > # A script to remove duplicate messages > > FILES=/home/bill/.icedove/qjimvr85.default/Mail/Local\ > Folders/2-Personal.sbd/* > # or "/home/bill/.icedove/qjimvr85.default/Mail/Local > Folders/2-Personal.sbd/*" > > for i in $FILES > do > mv "$i" ""$i".saved" > formail -D 65536 .msgid.cache -s < ""$i".saved" > "$i" > done > > mv: cannot stat `/home/bill/.icedove/qjimvr85.default/Mail/Local': No > such file or directory > ./mailscript: line 10: > /home/bill/.icedove/qjimvr85.default/Mail/Local.saved: No such file or > directory > mv: cannot stat `Folders/2-Personal.sbd/*': No such file or directory > ./mailscript: line 10: Folders/2-Personal.sbd/*.saved: No such file or > directory
Hi Bill Not sure about your Bash script, but 2 months ago I had the same problem of removing duplicate messages from Thunderbird/Icedove directory tree and crafted this: http://people.eisenbits.com/~stf/fsd/mboxgrep-perl/ . Maybe this will be of some help to you, or maybe you will find a bug or fix the documentation. :-) mboxgrep-perl comes with no warranty, of course. Backup all your files before using it. mboxgrep-perl.pl 0.1 (2011-05-28) Copyright (C) 2011 Stanislaw Findeisen <stf at eisenbits.com> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Usage: mboxgrep-perl-0.1.pl [OPTION]... DESCRIPTION mboxgrep-perl is a very simple mbox file parser. Features include: * ability to grep on e-mail headers using regular expressions * ability to filter out duplicate messages. Each e-mail message encountered on input is processed once and classified either as a match or not-match. Matching messages are printed out on standard output. They can also be deleted from input files. Using --dup you can filter out duplicate messages. There are 4 different ways to define when 2 messages are equal. OPTIONS Input control --source mbox file to parse. If this parameter is not specified, standard input is read. If this parameter is a directory, it is being read recursively. E-mail matching --equiv Message identity (equivalence relation) definition. Use 'message-id' for Message-ID header fields, 'identity' for binary identity (i.e. hashes over whole message) or 'content' for hashes over several fields (i.e.: Message-ID, Date, From, To, Cc, Subject, body prefix, body suffix). By default, all e-mail messages are considered different to each other. Note: not every e-mail message has Message-ID field. If this parameter is set to 'message-id' then all such messages will be considered identical (and a warning will be printed on standard error). Note: message equivalence has precedence over regular expression matching, i.e. if 2 messages are equivalent to each other and one of them matches the regex while the other does not, it is unspecified which one of them will be considered a match. --expr Perl-compatible regular expression to match the e-mail header against. If this parameter is not specified, the expression is considered empty and is satisfied by every e-mail message. THIS IS A SECURITY HOLE (the expression is passed as-is to Perl's qr//). -i The regular expression specified with --expr is case-insensitive. --dup In order to match, the message must be a duplicate (in processing order), i.e. it must have been preceeded by some other, equivalent message (see --equiv). -v Invert match, i.e. match messages that *do not* satisfy --expr *or are not* a duplicate (if --dup is specified). Output control --del Delete matching e-mail messages from input file(s). You'd better make a backup first! --tmpDir Temporary directory to use. -q Quiet mode: do not output any e-mails (just parse the file and report the count of matching e-mail messages). --qq Be even more quiet: suppress debug messages. This implies -q. Miscellaneous --help Print this help message. -w By default, mboxgrep-perl uses SHA-256 hashes. Use this option for MD5 instead. This is weaker but may be faster. BUGS This software was written on purpose and is not tested very well. Bug reports, comments, feature requests etc. are welcome: bug-report AT eisenbits.com . -- http://people.eisenbits.com/~stf/ http://www.eisenbits.com/ OpenPGP: E3D9 C030 88F5 D254 434C 6683 17DD 22A0 8A3B 5CC0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
