From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
To: Ralph Seichter <m16+notmuch@monksofcool.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: finding file by size
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2018 13:14:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8gs1tfm.fsf@wondoo.home.cworth.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2k1lq2asm.fsf@argon.seichter.de>
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On Tue, Nov 06 2018, Ralph Seichter wrote:
> I'm not sure about using Notmuch itself,
Right. Notmuch doesn't currently index (as far as I'm aware) anything
that would be useful for sorting by size.
> but this should work:
>
> find /path/to/maildir -type f -size +50M | xargs rm
Hmm... I imagine that Mark would be more interested in viewing these
files to ensure they are what he thinks they are before deleting them.
So, capturing the results of that with a notmuch tag would be
a reasonable thing to do. The only trick there is that I don't see any
existing search term to find a message associated with a particular file
name, (we have "path:" and "folder:" to find messages in a specific
directory, but nothing I see for finding the message corresponding to a
specific file).
So, then we could extract the message-id from each file and do a search
based on that I guess?
Here's a (bash) command I just ran on my mail store of over a million
messages that tagged the 8 messages larger than 50MB. It took about a
minute to run (with a warm cache):
for msg in $(
for file in $(find . -type f -size +50M);
do
grep -i ^Message-Id $file | sed -e 's/^.*<\(.*\)>.*/\1/';
done
);
do
notmuch tag +large id:$msg;
done
With that, I'm able to go through the list from:
notmuch search tag:large
to investigate whether these large emails are worth keeping.
So, that's obviously not extremely elegant, but it's at least possible.
-Carl
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-07 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-06 20:28 finding file by size Mark Janes
2018-11-06 20:47 ` Ralph Seichter
2018-11-07 21:14 ` Carl Worth [this message]
2018-11-07 21:37 ` Mark Janes
2018-11-12 15:28 ` David Bremner
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