Re: [nmh-workers] how might I make sequence 'bar' where 'bar' is all but msgs in seq 'foo'?

[nmh]

Thanking all of you for the help!

On Wed 3/13/19 11:54 +0700 Robert Elz wrote:
>  | Given a sequence 'foo', how can I get the complement,
>  | i.e. all messages in the folder, not in sequence 'foo'?
>
>in your MH profile set something like
>
>       sequence-negation: ^
>
>(some people use "not" I believe).
>
>Then just use ^foo where you would otherwise use foo.
>
>  | I want to save the results to sequence 'bar'.
>
>mark +folder -seq bar -zero ^foo

Thanks Robert, that worked!

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Hi Ralph:

On Wed 3/13/19 11:37 -0000 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>kre's correct.  Another way is
>
>    pick -seq bar all
>    mark -s bar -d foo
>
>That's an approach that extends to more complex set operations.

Nice! Also easy to understand. Thanks Ralph.

On Wed 3/13/19 13:55 -0000 address@hidden wrote:
>> Given a sequence 'foo', how can I get the complement, i.e. all messages in 
>> the
>> folder, not in sequence 'foo'?  I want to save the results to sequence 'bar'.
>> 
>> I could write a shell script, but can this be done more directly?
>
>You could use "mark -seq bar -zero -delete foo". When used with -delete 
>the -zero switch first adds all messages from the selected folder to the 
>sequence that is specified with -seq instead of first emptying that sequence.

OK, all in one command, thanks! 

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Tom