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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Compare file name and take action Post 303035324 by RudiC on Tuesday 21st of May 2019 07:03:32 AM
Old 05-21-2019
Running that script you should have seen some error messages. Why don't you post those as well, and be it sheer politeness to give the full picture?
 

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YAHOO2MBOX(1)							   User Commands						     YAHOO2MBOX(1)

NAME
yahoo2mbox - Retrieve and store Yahoo! Groups messages DESCRIPTION
yahoo2mbox Retrieves all messages in the archive of the given group from Yahoo and stores them in the specified local MBOX file. If the file exists, the messages not already in the file are appended to it. OPTIONS
yahoo2mbox [options] [-o <mbox>] <groupname> --help give the usage message showing the program options --version show the program version and exit --verbose give verbose informational messages (default) --quiet be silent, only error messages are given -o mbox save the message to mbox instead of file named groupname --start=n start retrieving messages at index n instead of 1 --end=n stop retrieving messages at index n instead of the last one --last=n retrieve last n messages from the list --resume resumes previously interrupted downloading, needed if --start is used, otherwise is automatic if mailbox already exists --noresume don't resume, overwrites the existing output file if any --user=name login to eGroups using this username (default: guest login) --pass=pass the password to use for login (default: none) --cookies=xxx file to use to store cookies (default: none, 'netscape' uses netscape cookies file). --proxy=url use the given proxy, if 'no' don't use proxy at all (even not the environment variable http_proxy which is used by default), may use http://username:password@full.host.name/ notation --country=xx use the given country code in order to access localized yahoo groups (default: none; supported: ar,br,de,dk,es,fr,it,mx) --x-yahoo add X-Yahoo-Message-Num header to the downloaded messages --x-delay=n sleep for n seconds between each message request (may be used allow the script to run continuously without hitting the Yahoo bytes/hour download limit) AUTHOR
yahoo2mbox was written by Vadim Zeitlin <vadim@NOSPAM.wxwindows.org>. This man page was written for Debian by Ganesan R <rgane- san@NOSPAM.debian.org> with the help of the help2man. yahoo2mbox January 2004 YAHOO2MBOX(1)
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