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perler
Asked: 2012-10-04 09:02:04 +0800 CST

script for changing file dates of postfix Mailbox files

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I have a Maildir structure, that got wrongly restored from backup and all files have the file date of the restore instead of when they have been created/received.

What would be the best way to correct this?

I think about recursively reading the first Received: line, extracting the date and touching the files, but it's a bit above my perl/shell skills. Can someone help?

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1 Answers

  1. Something to get you started:

    #/bin/bash 
for file in *; do
    echo "Processing $file.."
    tstamp=$(grep "^Date:" $file | cut -d : -f 2)
    echo "Set date to $tstamp"
    # I don't know it the date is in the correct format..   
    touch -d "$tstamp" "$file" 
done
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