On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 05:01:29PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 04:35:10PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> > An example would be that I have an mbox file (email messages) of 300 MB
> > and containing 50,000 messages and I want to break it into 10 sections of
> > at least 30 MB each (the tenth section would have to be a little smaller
> > because there wouldn't be enough file left).
> >
> > I can do stuff like this to divide the file "mbox" into individual email
> > messages, one per file...
> >
> > csplit -ksz mbox '/^From /' {*}
>
> I don't have an answer to your general question, but in this particular
> instance csplit would not necessarily do what you want, as there might
> be a paragraph starting with 'From' at the beginning of the line
> (which vim e-mail syntax highlighting merrily bolds and colors) that
> would result in a message split in two. Use 'formail' for this kind
> of processing.
When I've edited my mbox files with Emacs, anything that would match
^From that wasn't actually an e-mail delimiter was actually turned
into ^>From. My understanding is that this is part of some spec
somewhere.
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Scott Raun
sraun at fireopal.org