From: Francois Fleuret Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 18:26:47 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Added an EXAMPLES section. X-Git-Url: https://fleuret.org/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6bbb61e4cab435504f1ad5928d13a7efa9f99d64;p=mymail.git Added an EXAMPLES section. --- diff --git a/mymail.1 b/mymail.1 index 2cc4d0e..adfe684 100644 --- a/mymail.1 +++ b/mymail.1 @@ -110,27 +110,37 @@ the most recent such day .SH "EXAMPLES" -To index all the mbox files present in the directories -~/archives/mails/2010 and ~/archives/mails/2011 (recursively) and -create a database file /tmp/mymail/2010-2011/mymail.db +The command .RS .EX -mymail --db-file /tmp/mymail/2010-2011/mymail.db --index ~/archives/mails/2010 ~/archives/mails/2011 +mymail --db-file /tmp/mymail/2010-2011/mymail.db \\ + --index \\ + ~/archives/mails/2010 ~/archives/mails/2011 .EE .RE -To search in all the database files *.db located (recursively) in -/tmp/mymail, for all the mails having bob.something as sender or -recipient, without "spam" in the subject, and create a result mbox -file /tmp/mymail/mbox +will index all the mbox files present in the directories +~/archives/mails/2010 and ~/archives/mails/2011 (recursively) and +create an index file /tmp/mymail/2010-2011/mymail.db + +And .RS .EX -mymail --db-pattern '\\.db$' --db-root /tmp/mymail --search 'p bob.something' --search '!s spam' > /tmp/mymail.mbox +mymail --db-pattern '\.db$' --db-root /tmp/mymail \\ + --output /tmp/mymail.mbox \\ + --search 'p bob.something' \\ + --search '!s spam' \\ + --search 'month' .EE .RE +will search in all the database files *.db located (recursively) in +/tmp/mymail, for all the mails having "bob.something" as sender or +recipient, without "spam" in the subject, received over the last 31 +days, and create an mbox file /tmp/mymail/mbox. + .SH "BUGS" The search in the mail bodies does not decode mimencoding mails, hence