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Michele Baldessari

I needed to download LARTC's mailing list archives to check some things while on my way home by train. Here's the script I used to turn them into a single mbox file:

#!/bin/sh
BASE=http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/
for i in `seq 2002 2006`; do
for j in `seq 1 4`; do
FINAL="$i""q""$j.txt.gz"
wget "$BASE""$FINAL"
done
done
echo "Done downloading"
for i in `ls *.gz`; do
gunzip $i
NEW=${i%.gz}
formail -ds > "lartc-2002-2006.mbox"
done
echo "Done formatting archives"

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