[Mailman-Users] arch and html files

[Jean-Philippe GIOLA]

Mark Sapiro wrote:

>Jean-Philippe GIOLA wrote:
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>>Dan Phillips wrote:
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>>>On Jul 28, 2005, at 7:53 AM, Jean-Philippe GIOLA wrote:
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>>>>Hi all
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>>>>I know it is possible to re-create archives' html files for a list  
>>>>using
>>>>"/bin/arch listname path_to_listname.mbox"
>>>>But my problem is that i want to re-create those html files only  for 
>>>>the
>>>>last mail of listname.mbox
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>>>>Is it possible ??
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>>>Look at the options for bin/arch:
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>>>    -s N
>>>    --start=N
>>>        Start indexing at article N, where article 0 is the first in  
>>>the mbox.
>>>        Defaults to 0.
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>>yes but using this option, you must know how many mails there are in the 
>>mbox file.
>>and I don't know that number...
>>Is it possible to know it ?
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>grep ^From\ path_to_listname.mbox | wc | awk '{print $3-1}' -
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>I'm assuming you want to use bin/arch to add a message to the archive
>and that's why you're not using --wipe in your examples.
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>bin/arch can read any mbox format file. Thus you could use 'sed' for
>example to extract the last message from the mbox and write it to 'x'
>and then do 'bin/arch listname x'
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>>From your previous posts about archiving, I assume you are trying to do
>this to maintain pipermail archives in addition to using an external
>archiver. In that case, it's even easier. Have your external archiver
>write the current post to 'x' (you may have to add the initial From_
>line) and then do 'bin/arch listname x'.
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>Alternatively, you could just use Mailman's pipermail archiving only
>and build your external achiver to receive its input via an e-mail
>address which you subscribe to the list.
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>--
>Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
>San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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Thank you very much for your answer

Best reguards




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Cordialement,
Jean-Philippe Giola - 6577