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[ILUG] Script to move Maildir content

[ILUG] Script to move Maildir content

Rory Browne rbmlist at gmail.com
Tue Jul 7 12:51:58 IST 2009


> This is exactly why you use rsync - no need to mess with find, just run
> rsync again and it will only copy what's new.

rsync would probably be better in this case than find/cpio. I was
half-asleep when I wrote that last-night, but find/cpio would have
been much better than any of the other solutions, which got into
associative arrays etc, that were presented earlier.


>> I'll delve into the manuals for find and cpio to see what I can come up
>> with.
>
> Repeat after me - rsync, rsync, rsync.
>
Ok ok ok - you win.



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