I'm sorry I'm late to this discussion - you guys seem to have a grep obsession :-)
On 14Jul2010 23:12, Roger <[email protected]> wrote: | On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 08:06:17AM +0200, David Haguenauer wrote: | >* [email protected] <[email protected]>, 2010-07-14 21:01:01 Wed: | >> How can I exclude one folder from my mailbox list using a find | >> pipe? | >> | >> muttrc: | >> mailboxes `find ~/.maildir/ -type d -name cur -printf '%h '` [...] | > | >I'd use grep; something like the following: | > | > find ~/.maildir/ -type d -name cur -printf '%h ' | grep -v '\.roger/' | > | >(Adapt the regexp depending on how strict you need to be.) | | Great THANKS! I think this one worked "right out of the box, as is". | | I spent hours looking at man find, google, etc and none worked and I thought | grep -v wouldn't work. [...] | I think I'll post the grep -v option to the Mutt Wiki ConfigTricks! Maybe not. Isn't this more direct? find ~/.maildir/ -type d \( -path ~/.maildir/.roger -prune -o -name cur -printf '%h ' \) It also avoids regexps, which are often annoying (escaping . to \. etc). You can also speed it up greatly by pruning the search when you hit the "cur" or "new" folders, otherwise find will walk all the messages as well looking for deeper trees: find ~/.maildir/ -type d \( -path ~/.maildir/.roger -prune -o -name cur -printf '%h ' -prune -o -name new -prune \) which can be written: find ~/.maildir/ -type d \( -path ~/.maildir/.roger -o -name cur -printf '%h ' -o -name new \) -prune And are your maildirs all at the top level, or are they deeper? If you have a nested tree structure (I do - my old archived email is in subtrees) you need find. But if it is just a flat directory (.maildir/a, .maildir/b) you don't need find at all! Just use echo! echo ~/.maildir/* or for name in ~/.maildir/*; do case "$name" in */.roger) ;; *) echo "$name" ;; esac; done Which should be faster than find (no directory tree walking at all). Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Every particle continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line except insofar as it doesn't. - Sir Arther Eddington
