On 20 August 2001, Sarah K. Miller said:
When I needed to do this, I simply appended the .mbox file for the original list to the .mbox file of the current list (using Pico, since that's my editor of choice). Then I deleted the existing archives and rebuilt them using bin/arch.
<snarkiness level="high-to-moderate"> Many recent versions of Unix have an extremely powerful and advanced tool for just this: it's called "cat", short for "concatenate".
cat new_mbox >> old_mbox
could be just what the doctor ordered. HOWEVER, you MUST be sure to have a blank line between the last message in old_mbox and the first in new_mbox, so you might need this:
echo >> old_mbox; cat new_mbox >> old_mbox
This is especially useful if you're dealing with 20 MB mbox files that you don't want to load into your editor -- it's *much* more efficient this way! </snarkiness>
Hmm, this started out as a smart-ass, tongue-in-cheek response, but then got serious. So much for my reputation.
Greg