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<h1>git-mailsplit</h1>  <h2 id="_name">Name</h2> <div class="sectionbody">  <p>git-mailsplit - Simple UNIX mbox splitter program</p>  </div>   <h2 id="_synopsis">Synopsis</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="verseblock"> <pre class="content" data-language="shell">git mailsplit [-b] [-f&lt;nn&gt;] [-d&lt;prec&gt;] [--keep-cr] [--mboxrd]
                -o&lt;directory&gt; [--] [(&lt;mbox&gt;|&lt;Maildir&gt;)…​]</pre> </div> </div>   <h2 id="_description">Description</h2> <div class="sectionbody">  <p>Splits a mbox file or a Maildir into a list of files: "0001" "0002" .. in the specified directory so you can process them further from there.</p>  <div class="admonitionblock important"> <table> <tr> <td class="icon"> <div class="title">Important</div> </td> <td class="content"> Maildir splitting relies upon filenames being sorted to output patches in the correct order. </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div>   <h2 id="_options">Options</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="dlist"> <dl> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt-ltmboxgt"> &lt;mbox&gt; </dt> <dd> <p>Mbox file to split. If not given, the mbox is read from the standard input.</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt-ltMaildirgt"> &lt;Maildir&gt; </dt> <dd> <p>Root of the Maildir to split. This directory should contain the cur, tmp and new subdirectories.</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt--oltdirectorygt"> -o&lt;directory&gt; </dt> <dd> <p>Directory in which to place the individual messages.</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt--b"> -b </dt> <dd> <p>If any file doesn’t begin with a From line, assume it is a single mail message instead of signaling an error.</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt--dltprecgt"> -d&lt;prec&gt; </dt> <dd> <p>Instead of the default 4 digits with leading zeros, different precision can be specified for the generated filenames.</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt--fltnngt"> -f&lt;nn&gt; </dt> <dd> <p>Skip the first &lt;nn&gt; numbers, for example if -f3 is specified, start the numbering with 0004.</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt---keep-cr"> --keep-cr </dt> <dd> <p>Do not remove <code>\r</code> from lines ending with <code>\r\n</code>.</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt---mboxrd"> --mboxrd </dt> <dd> <p>Input is of the "mboxrd" format and "^&gt;+From " line escaping is reversed.</p> </dd> </dl> </div> </div><div class="_attribution">
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    &copy; 2012&ndash;2024 Scott Chacon and others<br>Licensed under the MIT License.<br>
    <a href="https://git-scm.com/docs/git-mailsplit" class="_attribution-link">https://git-scm.com/docs/git-mailsplit</a>
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