On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 05:56:11PM +0100, Peter Wiersig wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:50:37PM +0000, Salvatore Iovene wrote: > > > > Any ideas? > > Time-consuming: > rm -r Maildir/.All-Mails > maildirmake Maildir/.All-Mails > find Maildir/ -type f -name '1[0-9]*.*:*' -print0 | xargs cp > --target=Maildir/.All-Mails/cur
find Maildir/ -type f -name '1[0-9]*.*:*' -print0 | xargs -0r cp --target=Maildir/.All-Mails/cur correction: when -print0 is used, xargs needs -0 before cp, optionally also -r is useful... Peter
