Re: Another for the wish list...

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From: Roy M. Silvernail
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 1990 11:00

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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 :-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!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
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