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> On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Rick Baartman wrote:
> > Is there a way to do a global Sort command?
> 
> 
> Wanting to sort like that is not common; I'd be surprised if exmh has
> a widget for it.  You can achieve what you want with the command-line
> mh tools, though.
> I suggest doing the following from a shell prompt:
> 
>  sh -c 'for f in "`folders -recurse -fast`" ; do sortm +"$f" ; done'
> 
> (The command "sortm" will sort a particular folder, and
> "folders -recurse -fast" prints out a list of all of your folders.)
> 
> 
Thanks Tom and Jacob. The above works, but without the double quotes: i.e. 

sh -c 'for f in `folders -recurse -fast` ; do sortm +"$f" ; done'

I'd attach this command to the sorting menu if I knew any tcl...

--
rick



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