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hey guys. I'm trying to create a command file that moves my emails to a specified folder according to a keyword that is in the subject.

like move emails with "hey" in the subject to a folder that exists in my mail folder named "hey". how do I go about that? thanx.

anyone?

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This should work for you.

mv $(grep -l hey inbox/*) hey/


Found this from google....

okay, thanks. one question though, which "hey" is the subject line and which "hey" is the output folder? so that I know how to use the command with other emails.

how does grep -l specify the subject line of the email files as "hey", or whatever I happen to use. I'm trying to move email files based upon the content of the subject line for the email. much like a procmailrc file would, only as a command line or command file.

hey, can't you use something like this for your command file?

#!/bin/bash
MAILDIR="/var/spool/mail/firstname.lastname"
TEXT="hey"
DESTDIR="$HOME/Mail/hey"
find "$MAILDIR" -type f | while read N
do
cat "$N" | grep -q "$TEXT"
if [ $? == 0 ]; then
mv "$N" "$DESTDIR"
fi
done