1git-mailsplit(1) 2================ 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-mailsplit - Simple UNIX mbox splitter program 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10[verse] 11'git mailsplit' [-b] [-f<nn>] [-d<prec>] [--keep-cr] [--mboxrd] 12 -o<directory> [--] [(<mbox>|<Maildir>)...] 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Splits a mbox file or a Maildir into a list of files: "0001" "0002" .. in the 17specified directory so you can process them further from there. 18 19IMPORTANT: Maildir splitting relies upon filenames being sorted to output 20patches in the correct order. 21 22OPTIONS 23------- 24<mbox>:: 25 Mbox file to split. If not given, the mbox is read from 26 the standard input. 27 28<Maildir>:: 29 Root of the Maildir to split. This directory should contain the cur, tmp 30 and new subdirectories. 31 32-o<directory>:: 33 Directory in which to place the individual messages. 34 35-b:: 36 If any file doesn't begin with a From line, assume it is a 37 single mail message instead of signaling error. 38 39-d<prec>:: 40 Instead of the default 4 digits with leading zeros, 41 different precision can be specified for the generated 42 filenames. 43 44-f<nn>:: 45 Skip the first <nn> numbers, for example if -f3 is specified, 46 start the numbering with 0004. 47 48--keep-cr:: 49 Do not remove `\r` from lines ending with `\r\n`. 50 51--mboxrd:: 52 Input is of the "mboxrd" format and "^>+From " line escaping is 53 reversed. 54 55GIT 56--- 57Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite