Hi Steve,
On 15 May 2024, at 20:18, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
Is there any rational way to copy every message in a smart folder to a
single zip file, preserving the date order? If I cmd-C the list of
messages and copy/paste the files somewhere (or do the same via the
command line), the order is quasi-random, not preserving dates. (I'm
perfectly happy to do any sort of weird stuff from the command line.)
—Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
This worked for me in fish shell. Copy the files, then execute this to
do some translations on the “content created” field and save it back
to the “date created” field.
```
for file in *.eml
set created (mdls -name kMDItemContentCreationDate -raw "$file" )
set translated (date -jf "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z" "$created"
"+%Y-%m-%d %I:%M:%S %p" | sed
's/\([0-9]\{4\}\)-\([0-9]\{2\}\)-\([0-9]\{2\}\)
\([0-9]\{2\}\):\([0-9]\{2\}\):\([0-9]\{2\}\).*$/\2\/\3\/\1 \4:\5:\6/')
SetFile -d "$translated" "$file"
end
```
--
Logan Kirkland
lo...@logankirk.land
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